STOCK JOKES

blue ships
pass in the corridor
and run up flags with their eyes

stock jokes
cough out like chimney smoke

blurt
into
an
overlit world

I DIDNT RECOGNISE YOU WITH YOUR CLOTHES ON
to a nurse prancing proud in civvies

they get laughs theyre designed for

i study this from a low orbit
simultaneously 
my anxiety reaches atomic levels
reading 
about
Einsteins protons which decide a location on observation
and
i
wonder too
if
i'm
understanding words right today