I am so fucking serious – Peter Forrester

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Another brilliant piece from a GUNNAS WRITING MASTERCLASS writer

Seriously. I ruminate on my ruminations, about the shit that has gone wrong in my life. Why do I do that? It’s such a miserable existence. OK, so my Dad was emotionally and physically abusive for the 21 years before I fled home, to the intense, poor but wonderful life of an inner city share house. But now 40 years later I’m still delving down into the depths of that misery, seeking to heal and understand.

Trying to work myself out!

For goodness sake wake up

Get on with your wonderful life!

Make a meal of it and eat it up

Savour your morsels with delight

Bathe in the humour, laugh like an idiot

Pratfall, you raving lunatic

 

Make a study of being funny

and remember that you’re joking

Hang around with funny bastards

Steal all humour that’s going

Mimic Michael Leunig, pillage all his ‘toons

Paper up a funny wall, revealing all the runes

Sculpt words of fun you’ve found, kidnap Catherine Dev

Give her tickle, tease & torture  

for the laughs that give her cred

 

Study up the belly laugh

Leap deep into stand-up comic

Create a workshop of hilarity

Plunge boldly, be bad, catatonic

Examine your funniest wishbone

Find your humorous fancy

Guffaw loudly on a tram

crazy Mad Hatters’ tea-party

 

Laugh until you it makes you cry

Howl until you almost die

Snicker, snort, and snuffle, give a rude retort

Giggle and smirk, try out a new lurk

Take a cue, a maddened view, employ it

Dare a farf, create a laugh! Chew off every bit

A laughing life can be fun

Seriously, I think I’ve thrown it!

 

by Peter Forrester [Twitter @fortaypete]

Dedicated to all those beautiful, creative souls at today’s inaugural Advanced Gunnas.

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