No Joke

Chuck Berman

(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune/MCT)

By MARIO WEDDELL

(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune/MCT)

Your laughter is tied up in mine

And mine is knots and knots with yours

And your heart, your heart

Is miles of sky

That I swing through on these chords

And still these cords could come apart

And we could cut them all

And still we’d both be laughing

Laughing as I fall