When Humour Wins The Day

When the news gets bad enough
that what the newspapers tell us 
gives you, and who you trust,
arguments for trying to make sense of it,
then please don't be ashamed
at rejecting the indigestible,
and wanting humour instead.

You want it less because you need the laughs
and more because for humour to work well
the script has be tight, to be consistent,
and have a strong internal logic to be
what is in effect a self contained world,
that works better because it is not reality.