friendship by carmen poon

​Inappropriate laughter spills from my mouth
Making tabu topics taste sweet on my tongue.
Tears of mirth flood my eyes
Washing away the sting of sorrows.
 
Like giggling schoolgirls, we banter away our pain.
Stripping it of its power,
We lay waste to it,
Striking at it with absurd guffaws and irreverent merriment.
 
Ours is a cackling camaraderie that roars at the farce of life
And satiates my soul.
 
For Ev
Sunday, February 6, 2022