“Back When All Was Continuous Chuckles,” by Colette Inez

This poem was helpless on the Beeline Bus laughing at what was it?

“Back When All Was Continuous Chuckles” is in the “Word Choice, Word Order, & Tone” chapter of The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (9th ed.), edited by Michael Meyer. (That’s the text for my summer lit class online.)

Colette Inez published it before that in the Autumn 2004 issue of The Hudson Review.