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if you feel that you were born with the unfortunate reality of not being able to laugh at anything---
if you cannot find anything
humorous---
if you have
never
ever
belted back & guffawed amongst friends
or
more importantly
sometimes amidst them (when they have no idea what it is that you are laughing at)---
because if you can laugh at your own jokes,
you know
you are closer to 46 & 2 than the rest of us left with the
old n’ moldy 44
but ya see
if you can’t find something funny
if you can’t find anything comical about the sheer
in
your
face
absurdity, which comes slamming into you at a break-neck pace
every day you are alive…
well,
goddamn---
it sucks to be you.

it sucks to be you because
the shortness of your life is bearing down upon you
yes,
it could be over in the next breath,
and yet,
you can’t laugh at even that?
think about how ridiculous your own existence is
think about the fact that out of a zillion sperm that could have found their way to that egg,
you
are the one that did the deed
you, who still can’t ride a bike
you, who has a drawer full of degrees but nothing coming close to some kind of occupation which would reflect said “education”
lol
you, who would die if the microwave hadn’t been invented,
etcetera
etcetera
etcetera.

embrace the ludicrous!
take a bath in the hysterical!
go skateboarding with the jesters!
try a pudding pop with the knee-slappers!
wander with the bizzare, walk with the witty!
the whimsical!
the “weird”!---
you got ta have more time with the
good
humored
humans.

they are out there
you throw a stone and you will hit one
more like 2 or three
those that are out there fulfilling that most beautiful need
the need to laugh with your fellow species
and in that great guffaw
bring in that feeling of real enjoyment
owing nothing to anyone or anything but the
moment.

smile, you’re not dead yet.