Word of the Day Challenge: Hilarious
Franz von Stuck
When I tripped
when I fell
when I mispronounced a word
counted up the numbers wrong
Hilarious to everybody there
When I wore my hair wrong
chose the wrong clothes
drove the wrong car
saw the wrong movies, read the wrong books
it was oh so very hilarious to everybody there
Once I was right and
no one was there
to see it, to hear it, to cry
Hey! That’s not hilarious
except for a choir of crickets who happily chirped hurrah.
For Fandango’s Flashback Friday
First Published November 24,2015
I struggle to learn a New Non-Language and the results are not stellar:
( Via Text)
Me: Are you going to do the writing prompt?
ME: What?
ME: I thought you said you wanted to try your hand at doing some writing.
FB: 
ME: I don’t get it, are you going to write or not?
FB: 
ME: Come on. Seriously are you going to do the prompts or not?
FB: I said yes. Did you not get my messages?
ME: I got a bunch of smiley faces. You might want to reconsider the writing thing if that’s how you’re going about doing it.
FB: Oh. You’re so funny. Everyone talks with these things now. It’s like sign language.
ME: Oh. I get it. Like this? 
FB: Um.
ME: Oh. Gee. I guess I should study up on this new language before I doing anymore writing. It’s obvious I’m out of touch. Just let me bash my head against the wall for a few hours and I’ll ….
