Laughter (October)

To manifest the spasmodic utterance, facial distortion, and random shaking of sides expressing instinctive mirth, amusement, or sense of the ludicrous. To emit the raucous, gutteral, squealy, or super-giggly noise akin to hyenas or kookaburras. Longwinded definitions of guffaw break the monotony, like Leonardo’s laughers, more tortured than relieved, obsessive more than rational. We insist: there’s a time for laughter. Sanity, we’re told it is, to laugh at fortunes and misfortunes. Is it? The best medicine, meaning life’s a condition cured by temporary respites. Song is an improvement, verbalising and anaesthetising the secrets laughter implies, October’s sage being April’s fool.