No matter how we adjust

Each screen comes up
blue and blank,
no matter how we adjust
the rabbit ears.

Shopping this morning,
we had to put back
the raisins and vanilla,
and other items.

We joke about jumping
off the bridge,
as some have done lately,
but do not have the gas.

But laughter, huge
wells of it, is free;

we just laugh and
laugh and laugh and
laugh and laugh and