The Punchline Is Here

The Punchline Is Here

I kept waiting for the punchline to arrive from somewhere else,
Something bold delivered from beyond the crowded shelves,
A revelation from the outside that would clarify the through,
And then I looked around and found the punchline was me and you.
So here we are at the end of all these books and all these lines,
The punchline is exactly what the whole arrangement finds:
That being here is funny and that being here is true,
And the greatest punchline of all is that it is also you.