All things come into existence from their opposite state

Socrates said

Or something like that

For example love must have once been hate

I don’t know

What I do

is that the punchline

made everyone sitting around the table cry laughing

and the whole room smelled like the limes

squeezed for gin

We all stopped talking philosophy and dirty jokes

when the song about a tough guy played on the radio

We were all caught in the midst of something

bigger than ourselves Even the cat

could not help but notice the full moon

What a fool I had been thinking

I could not live without you