Laughter

~ Harlan Didrickson 

Tickle me pink
let me blush 
with laughter show
me embarrassing peals
and snorts and 
ugly pure glee 
tell me old
ones and new 
ones and bawdy
ones too don’t 
hold back never 
hold back jokes 
for laughter at
least to me 
is the trumpet 
of Heaven itself 
and one of 
the many songs 
of the soul