The Point of It, Actually

Poetry, you see
Is actually
A perverse form
Of humor

The point of which
Is to tell the joke
In terms so vague
That the listener
Is guaranteed
Not to get it

But to be left
With the exquisite
Torment
Of sensing a punchline
Just beyond their grasp

Else what’s a poem for?

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