Pass The Laughing Gas

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Life is a long, slow toothache
in a universe lacking dentistry.

We throb slowly through it
enjoying only intermittent relief,
fleeting respites before the next
inevitable jolt of pain arrives,
dreaming anesthetic dreams,
laughing through the ether.

Buzzards do the foxtrot,
cassowaries sing hallelujahs,
cats observe in silence,
butterflies smile knowingly,
mute songbirds shrilly trill,
sad cows militantly moo.

Any impossible distraction will do,

allowing us to stumble onward,
pretending that suffering
is the exception, not the rule.

In a world made of jokes,
so many ways to play the fool.