Kit Kelen #333 - laughter

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laughter

enlists the warring world

it gives the belly dimension

it has the force of habit

all air

laughter is expulsion

and it requires that you draw in

the trick goes off in your face

it's a powder

it's well sprung

it will make you itch

laughter is always at someone's expense

money changers from the temple

camels, needles

every ghost is given up

laughter's being in your skin

and it's like anything

like billy-oh

like fun

go at it

laughter's everywhere

and as a rule

(categorical imperative

carnival had at self)

laughter lists

like a ship set to sink

you go down with the funnel

that's funny

or you swim a ways off

good spot to watch

the fun go down

laughter's the party

distilled to its moment

past where the breath was held

I'm being fired out of a canon

I'm slipping on a banana skin

I'm falling down in the street

look down

and laughter's in your pants

and on fire

you're the cucumber

with the duck's back

in the cat's pyjamas

you have to go along with it

anyway ants will carry you off

and see them cringing there

smaller than sight?

so much so

their sides will ache

their hearts will go pitter pat

these are the vanishing victims

of laughter

o just to be one of them!