“It’s just a joke”

Jana
1 min readJan 24, 2022

Let’s try to be funny
You raggedy lil dog
We ain’t got money
But laughs we can hog
Define us Greed will
Like the world it has seen ill
We’ll talk of cures
While our vaccines are replaced
by haughty manicures,
We’ll laugh at everything
Because why the heck not?
Reasons are useless,
Explanations futile —
And be it god may bless
The unfortunate and the rest,
But how we’ve been blessed
A mystery in itself,
To carry on now is our only test,
But let’s be funny instead,
We’ll burn the village,
We’ll make a little girl cry in her bed
If not right out dead,
We’ll go make the college kid regret
Why they’re even holding on
To this world full of hate,
This is funny!
How we scream and torment,
We need the concert tickets,
That mansion with white pickets,
We need our parents love
Or any sort of affectation
But don’t know how to reciprocate,
We don’t face the problems
We instead just beg!
We can be funny too,
You and I,
No longer filled with rage;
A boisterous laughter sage!
They’ll blame us,
Shame us,
But forget that’s what they asked,
They’ll laugh
And I think I shall sigh
And now laugh along
With the world that’s greed high.

©️2020 Jana Pelzom

So many people say mean and unwarranted things and use the line “it’s just a joke” to brush off everything and that isn’t very nice.

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