PatrickKn said:

Well, I'm tangled, I'm ecstatic - manic patterns automatic
Feelings vanish, reappear, fading in and out of panic
They dress it up in humor, laugh tracks on a slaughter cam.
I'm grinning at the mirror, like I don't know who the jokers am.

Teeth show, threat code, twitching in a trench coat
Shriek laugh leaking, like the valve on a lost hope.
Punchline smuggled in a hand grenade
"Here is your delivery!"
Tickled by the symmetry,
Neurosis in captivity.
Ha. Ha. Ha.

Well, man is just a monkey with a monologue and debts,
Tries to giggle past the graveyard, wears a smile while he sweats,
There's a chuckle in the knuckle, when the saber tooth is nippin'.
A morphine hit of dopamine, for moments when you're trippin'.

Yo, a polite smile is in the primate file.
Filed under, "please don't strike me while I gauge your dial".
Cheese grin, has-been, posture of the peacetime.
Cracking up in the face of things that eat up tribes in real time.

I've seen a meme turn an image of a firing squad into therapy,
Kinda funny, like a mirror cracking parallels in clarity,
Drone strikes, satellites, we hide behind the acronym's.
If you giggle when you shouldn't you'll be banished to a pseudonym

It's a fear grin, jester joking like a puppeteer
Open mouth offering, calm through the check in
Caveman coded, joking through the doom
When the lightning strikes twice, then the laughter's in bloom

Your body don't debate it, just converts the signal quick,
Stress leaks out the corners when the language doesn't stick.
That's your giggle loop - fight, flight, or shoulder bite.
It's a chomp down on the grin so the scream sits right.

Tell em it's a jungle and the jokes keep coming,
Like banana peels on trap doors, gut laugh summonin'
Comedy's a crypt key, you can fit it in the gridlock
My belly ache's a message from the lizard brain inbox.

It's a fear grin, a way to face new threats
Half reflex, half feelings of regret.
You don't laugh because it's joy, you laugh because it's loud
Like the gasp before the quake, when the plate gives out

Cue the nervous chuckle at the chaos in the crosswalk.
Cops chalk the scene while we giggle through the onslaught.
Real ones don't laugh, unless it stabs through the wallpaper.
Catch 'em off guard though, and they're spillin' like a salt shaker.

Different faces, same ghost in the gut string
Both bare teeth, but panic is the the older thing

A joke is the jitter in a palatable frame.
Yeah the scream wears face paint, but it answers to the same.
So every "ha ha ha", only half holds me
Folded in the chuckle is a, "don't control me!"

Two stems, one root.
Laughter and alarm, same body different suit.
The truth in jest is just a terror in a dress shirt
Both of them evolved where the nervous nerves networked.

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This is what I'm talking about. Everyone else crying and complaining because it's not another threat about politics and what psychologist didn't agree with the political choice and how the politicians didn't agree to finance the psychologists they need to go see and the kids in the neighborhood didn't like Obama or didn't like Trump but he was around anyway so they're not going to have a future. Etc etc

You chipped in and made this thread better.

Everyone else crying "I liked the violence but not the rhyme scheme" or "I like the rhyme scheme but not the violence."

I think we need more threads like this where you can express yourself without people bringing in politics and arguing and permabs and the thread getting locked.

I'm going to do my best to contribute and keep this thread open. I love that you're contributing and writing. Appreciate it. It will not go unnoticed.

I got you brah

We're going to make this thread better than ever