What is funny?

Right!   This time i’m writing a poem that’s not too serious

Don’t be ramming ya viewpoint down everyone’s throat

Lighter tone - quirky - ham-it-up-a-bit.  Don’t go berserk though …    

Something that might work on the slam-circuit …

Nudges the listener … not bludgeons …  

Maaate!  Nice Mind Lattice.  I’m ..   

Ohr - wait: gotta make it rhyme   -  so the judges’ll know it’s poetry …

& don’t forget ta repeat a line - to amplify significance

& don’t forget ta repeat a line to amplify significance 

 

Now  -  let's get to:  THE Essence:   

(a) What is: funny?  

(b) How to write in: a funny way?  

Maaate … good questions … See - we’re makin progress already …

Before we delve into these …  kernels of truth … First Rule: 

Don’t be mentioning THE C-word.           &/Or:   THE V-word  

We’ve all moved on

Got it.

Apart from that … breaks our Golden Rule:  it’s not funny  

Well … technically  …  it’s:   funny peculiar …

How’s that?

Bat Lady  … & … Batman:  cook up a: Super Bat Virus … in:   

THE Bat Lab (using real nicknames they’d already given themselves)

Hell!  Hope their security was tight …

SuperNope - it wasn’t  - coz Super Bat Virus exits THE Building - into:   THE WorldGotham-Globe

Whoops …

No worries mate - queue our errant knight:  THE Virus Hunter 

who rides to the rescue  -  tells/sells THE World:  

T’was Pangolins that done it ! 

Yeah - so i heard - a love triste with bats n market workers - apparently

Yep.  Fully proven by THE Experts.  Everyone else is - inherently:  

a tin-foil hat Conspiracy Theorist

& btw:  China’s brand of Totalitarianism is:    “open & transparent”

Huhhuhhuh!   Yeah - more amusing than i’d’ve originally thought …

but thenyou’d againhave to admit …it did catapult us into a Dystopian Movie  -  including: 

Draconian Restrictions on: all our Freedoms

State-sponsored: Disinformation

Uhm … the reaping of Record Corporate Profits straight off the back of it

That’s dark  bro  - it’s kindainteresting-dark interesting- don’t get me wrong - but:  not funny

NoYeah, doubt.no   You’re right  -  didn’t think about that …doubt

& Lest we forget:  15 mil killed  as collateral -  n counting … 

Downwards … weirdly enough … 

Yeah i saw that too: Guess WHO’s gettin nervous about the law suits (?)

Their latest mail says Covid’s officially: Over 

With only 6.8 million dead -  THE: final tally  -  supposedly

Yeah - even so -  not a helluva lotta laughs in that   …   right?

Most of em were:         old & frail …