Galactic Laughs

If Jupiter could sing,
its voice would echo like a thousand
crescendos lost in the vacuum of space.

Imagine a comet, tail long and proud,
doing a pirouette through the asteroid belt—
the stars would laugh in fits,
their light wavering like a drunken flame.

A black hole walks into a bar,
the bartender says, “We don’t serve your kind.”
But the black hole just grins, absorbing all
light and laughter alike.

Somewhere in the Andromeda,
a neutron star tells a joke to a supernova,
and the punchline travels faster than light.

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