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.