Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Last Laugh

Laughing at my mistake I'd heard

Was a way to lengthen my life,

But shorten it could be assured,

Laughing at mistakes of my wife.

So when my wife made a mistake,

As she was often prone to do,

And it was funny for gosh sake,

I'd laugh later, she never knew.

But then that later came one day

When I laughed, but unknown to me,

She overheard, to my dismay,

My last living mistake to be.

I laugh at my mistake I made,

As into the ground I am laid.