“three in/ the morning”: this break allows the line to begin and end with “n,” a nasal stop, so that a sonic narrative is created, appropriate to a discussion of creating narratives. Also, it allows “the morning” to begin the next line, or what visually looks like the inside of the line, which reinforces the thought as well as creating an echo– which reinforces the idea of being inside something– and forces you to process the events which follow as being inextricable from the idea of their occurring in the morning.

“what’s/ funny is when”: this is a funny break. It turns “funny” from a description into a state, which makes sense because you the reader are reading a description of a report– which by its description we must assume has also been read, by someone– that explains that people are reading. So we are reading about someone reading about how people read, humor is the self-implicating recognition of the absurd, this isn’t a scenario describing one thing that is funny out of many things, this is a scenario which describes every funny thing, the thing of funniness itself. Funny.