a sorta Al Jolson poem

Is this you,dead great grandma

 floating through the room

on an unseeable balloon,

with eyes all ballooned up.

Is it Al Jolson with his face daubed

in dark black ichor...

why is everyone laughing.

why do people always laugh at things that scare me.

Reviews

[Robin]

people should be afraid of pretense and facades , and ghosts , well they be ghosts ... i wonder if they are laughing because they are scared or scared of laughing ...

[Ed Hart]

i know that you disparage your own poetic inventiveness, buy i'm here to say you're just great...so there

[Emily B]

you must learn to laugh, too, really, it is the only way