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# Kingdom for a Horse Laugh
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/kingdom-for-a-horse-laugh/
- Published: 2024-02-28T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-28T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: A laugh, a laugh, my kingdom for a laugh! Not something that you're gonna hear too often, but if you're prone to speaking off the cuff, without the common sense to mince or soften expressions of your effervescent glee...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

A laugh, a laugh, my kingdom for a laugh!  
Not something that you're gonna hear too often,  
but if you're prone to speaking off the cuff,  
without the common sense to mince or soften  
expressions of your effervescent glee,  
regardless of their circumstance or placement,  
then whether paid for, or indeed for free,  
deriving satisfaction from abasement  
will put you at the risk of losing all.  
Yes, silence is still worth its weight in gold  
and speech still free, but there's a protocol,  
unwritten though it is, and jokes grow old.  
And so it turns that in the Land of Woke,  
you'll lose entire kingdoms for a joke.