Zero-G Humor

Telling a joke to my fellow astronaut on the way to Mars.

Unto my fellow astronaut
I told a joke while deep in space.
She looked at me, her eyes grew wide,
and then she just laughed in my face.

At first we were just head to toe
because we were in Zero-G.
As I was midway through the joke,
I noticed we were arm to knee.

Afloat we were in capsule Hoot—
so named because of all who gave.
“I think they spent a lot of loot.”
She answered with, “Then we should save.”

In weightlessness we floated on,
and soon my head beheld her waist.
I neared the punchline of my joke,
but worried of pun’s aftertaste.

So suddenly, in head to head,
my joke attained its ardent zing.
Then her guffaws from ruby lips
afforded me laugh’s happening.

(For thus I said: “A duck one day
  waddled to Walgreens to buy a pill.”
  The clerk then asked, “Will that be cash?”
  The duck said, “No, put it on my bill.”)


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Writer’s Cramp
11-3-19