The Cosmic Joke

 

Visitors arrive from the Other World,

bringing erotic embraces from old lovers,

but also dark presences at the back of the church,

comedians leaping from Las Vegas balconies

and one-way roads leading to dead ends.

 

Dead ends? Falling? But no one dies!

Are these apparitions that warn

Of a dark future just ahead?

 

Or are they invitations to

Leap into the unknown?

Learn to drive backwards?

Finish mourning old losses?

Lead the singing regardless of danger?

Find out what the Shadow knows?

Take that ex-lover outdoors and fuck him silly

Even if he has a tiny cock?

 

How about that one about

The hundred-dollar bottle of wine?

Come on, you don’t get it?

Help me out, folks, Sheesh! I’m dying up here!