The Pun

Geof Huth:

The pun is the highest form of literature, being completely entangled in language, inextricable from it. Puns appear in my head unbidden, as if gifts of heaven, and I lay them down into the masonry of whatever building of words I’m constructing. It is a rare poem of mine that exists without a pun, but many of the puns are oblique, hidden, disguised, probably only visible to me. I see them and say to myself, No-one will ever see that.