A man goes to war with the same country
his father did. No. A man wears insulated pants. Sorry. A man holds two cups of coffee
in one hand and one hand of poker
in the other hand and one
thermonuclear device in the other
other hand. I am trying. Did you ever think
it’s wrong to want people dead
when maimed is more interesting?
All that clomping and falling
when a leg’s shot off and a man
wants revenge. Someone told him no.
Someone said very loudly or in a soft voice
or maybe this someone just wrote
the word on a pad and slipped
the piece of paper
under a door but anyway there it was,
no. No is on turned around, the man thought,
and on is the first part of only,
and only means just a bit, and just a bit
isn’t too much, and not too much
is never enough, we need more
and more is yes and yes
is basically what no is telling me,
the man thought. A man
wants an entirely personal relationship
with semantics. I will love you to death
is really not such a bad phrase if a man
walks into a bar and something funny
happens in the bar. If the bar’s
in another country, the joke
can be amended, a man walks
into another country. There’s a duck, a horse,
a Rabbi, Muhammad. Whenever a man
says knock-knock, don’t ask, who’s there?
Building a Joke
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