I’m Not Sure He’s Funny Enough

Rosanna Clarke is a psychotherapist who uses poetry to explore the nuances, complexities and contradictions present in humans and relationships. Rosanna explores romance and some of its messier elements, friendship, body image, internalised misogyny, anxiety, self-worth and the sometimes exhausting pursuit of self-improvement. Her poems move between vulnerability and humour, often questioning the impulse to analyse, fix and categorise our experiences rather than simply live them.

I’m Not Sure He’s Funny Enough

I say I'm not sure he's funny enough 

But when they make a joke 

It's not with them I connect 

It's with the blank space in my head

what do I say next

I say I'm not sure he's funny enough 

But when he puts on a shirt

Two sizes too small 

It's with him 

I laugh till I bawl 

I say I'm not sure he's funny enough 

But when this sentiment 

Slips my mind 

I notice how around him 

I laugh all the time 

I say I'm not sure he's funny enough 

But it might in fact be me 

Who I'm not sure is funny enough 

And it's in the echo of his quiet giggle 

Where I begin to feel funny enough.