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A hard laugh

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It was a hard laugh. A cold laugh.
The kind of laugh that savages the funny. 
It pulls the funny outside.
Stuffs it into the trunk of a
'79 Chevy Impala.
Takes the funny for a ride.
It was a hard, joyless laugh.
And it kept on coming.

1 comment for “A hard laugh”

  1. Itto Ogami
    June 9, 2004 at 5:58 am

    sounds like a dubwa laugh. a fake laugh, a laugh that hides pessimism and disdain and contempt, a laugh that squashes smiles and upsets pets.
    “He will laugh thee to scorn.
    —Old Testament, Ecclesiasticus xiii. 7.
    “In bed we laugh, in bed we cry;
    And, born in bed, in bed we die.
    The near approach a bed may show
    Of human bliss to human woe.”
    —Isaac de Benserade (1612–1691)

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