Somehow hard, hard... AND tenderly
If Dylan got it, I really do think this should too
and BTW, reddit won't have the oh so riginal cover here, no way no how
I've read Kafka would burst out laughing reading his stories in public and I think there's some of them that totally justify it, not in a twisted or sarcastic way, I think a lot of them were actually funny and most had humor in them.
I love "The City Coat of Arms" https://sl1nk.com/34zcequ
It's stright up a joke, it ends with a punch line, literally haha. It has a set up, it develops, I honestly think it reads like stand up.