Chris Stroffolino

LOVE AS FEAR OF LOVE IN LAUGHTER

The external promise is also internal. Just to let you know I know and now we can move on to other things, a change, an opposite. The external threat that's not internal is the external threat I will do my best to keep out. I have built the wall. I am convinced everyone else has too. And I want to expose those who deny it for the liars or fools they are because you have to think you're being laughed at first in order to realize I'm only laughing at myself and I want to meet you in laughter more than I want to meet you in love because there can be no love without laughter or there can, but I will not meet you there. It is the external enemy, if it brings music I may make an exception but music's a form of laughter, or a promise cloud I strike from the drunken before disguised--in threat--as after