Stupid Questions

This week, I am into asking stupid questions.

What is the sum total of all humanity?

Is it right for a poor person to eat a millionaire’s shortcake?

Where can I get one of those?

 

Depends. What do you mean by ‘those’?

Your answer, ‘One of those as opposed to one of these’

had me pitying those tragically misguided souls

who claim, ‘Oh, there’s no such thing

as a stupid question!’

 

They really need to up the ante

with regard to the scope of their imagination,

such as it is, don’t they? Or is that

another stupid question?

 

And what of question the verb?

I question the existence of any chairs.

And don’t come all quantum physics with me,

because we both know that

our understanding of such matters can be measured

in Planck lengths.

 

Do you think that this poem should have ended

at line thirteen?

Now, that seems like

a valid question.

(The answer’s no, though, obviously;

isn’t it?)