Hiroshi Shinoda

HaHa

That city in Africa
where everyone started laughing
one by one
and they couldn’t stop
no one could stop laughing
even to eat or drink
or breathe
I read about it
and dreamt it last night
they couldn’t eat or drink or breathe
and they couldn’t stop laughing
one by one
that city in Africa
died
and the silence
came in the night
and swallowed it up
that city in Africa
when the laughing stopped
everyone was gone
one by one
but in the dream all I could think
-- the dream last night --
was
where?

Hiroshi Shinoda recommends "How to Eat an Oriole" by Anderson Holderness at>kill author.

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