There’s poetry funny
and there’s funny funny
a lot of poets achieve poetry funny
but will never sniff at funny funny
and it throws their equilibrium
when another poet does
They can’t grasp the guffaw
coming from the bouncer
and waitstaff hustling for tips
They raise their nose a trifle
never recognizing that
the bouncer and waitstaff
is precisely the audience
that poetry needs to reach
to avoid marginalization