i think it is when you are angry
and in spite of yourself it slips
past your
or it is the spite that slaps
out in a twinge of something
against your better
judgement day
that laugh that is chopped
in a way the water is chopped
on a breezy day and
the motor pushes the boat
to bump across the lake
that which goes
o ho ho, not on my time
you don't
in the sitcoms
but has a little more glee
...and smirch in real life
i am afraid of no. 7
because i think that laugh
will someday get the better
of me