Sorry I'm Late, I Was Jorkin' My Dork

as the undisputed poet laureate 
of music podcasts,
I've used comedy 
as a defense mechanism
since I was just a boy...

this middle is more
confusing than I expected,
what with all the adulting,
and now stairwells turn me on...

trying to picture my life 
a year from now,
but I can't see it
so that is what makes me 
the most scared...

and so I joke 
about the unknown,
because there aren’t a lot of books
about cancer for men like me.