Nice to Know at Last What Is Meant by JD DeHart

Nice to Know at Last What Is Meant

Yes, it’s nice to become

acquainted with sound

and reason of other beings,

makes one feel like one belongs

to an invisible club –

the lines were always drawn,

but it’s helpful to know they

were not imagined.

It's remedy for the sanity.

Finally nice to know what is

meant by all these chuckles,

to get the inside joke,

to speak the vernacular, try

it on like a glove on the tongue.

Practicing in the mirror

three times this morning alone.

There now, doesn’t that feel better,

or does it make matters worse,

now with a heavy mouth?

JD DeHart is a writer and teacher.  His writing has recently appeared at Cacti Fur and Oddball Magazine.