I Spoke the Joke

I spoke the joke,

there was silence;

tumbleweed rolled

across the stage;

I turned the page,

‘there’ was another joke,

I spoke ‘that’ joke;

there was no applause,

just some encouraging snores,

and Einstein’s laws

of the gravity

of levity

were reinforced

once again.

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