The Universe Forgets the Punchline

The Universe Forgets the Punchline

The universe told a joke at the moment of the first bright flash,
and then expanded outward at the speed of all the ash,
and the joke echoed through the fourteen billion years of space,
but somewhere around the Cretaceous the universe forgot the place.
It knew it was a good one, it knew there was a thing,
it knew the setup perfectly and what the words would bring,
but the punchline had slipped out somewhere
in the dark between the stars,
and the universe has been reconstructing it through Jupiter and Mars.
The universe forgets the punchline, tries to reconstruct,
fourteen billion years of setup and the punchline stuck,
the setup was so perfect that you’d think the rest was planned,
but the universe forgets the punchline, just like any man.