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on the tip of my tongue
a funny thing is on edge
an ambivalent thing I think,
as if a comedian on a brink
in a no-nonsense universe
of serious laughs is set to sail or sink
but all anticipation feels this way
in the space beyond a punch line,
in the knot between chuckle or groan,
waiting for a laugh or its dark doppelganger
in the world between cozy dream and
I-really-need-to-wake-up-now-
un-alone
Jim Culleny
5/6/18
Thanks to A. R. for his dream which included the line,
“…on the edge of a joke.“
Blink 