beide (und keine)

So,
two poets
walk into a bar.

After far too many
__drinks,
and a whole lot of
__words,
one turns to the other
and says:

"I'll bet you
thought this
was a joke."

Not allowing himself
to miss a beat,
the other smiles slyly
and replies:

"Naw,
I knew it
was poetry
all along."