Fear

~ Harlan Didrickson 

Fear is funny
a comedy a
frequent stand up 
routine but the 
jokes on you 
fear doesn’t exist 
not out there 
anyway anywhere beyond 
your own nose 
fear is fantasy 
a thought and 
the antithesis of 
almost everything not 
an alternative but 
an abstract not
life certainly not 
that fear tastes
bitterly of death