A Paean For the Marx Brothers

THE MARX BROTHERS or The Unimportance of Being Earnest I will praise the brothers Marx for their absurdity As all ‘fools’ who mask high wisdom with the artless May they lift our spirits faced with an adversity The rejection of such gladness would be heartless For when loosed of strictures rife with disapproval Their spirits could create with wild abandon Then without constraints demanding the removal Of that which breaks the sanctity some stand on So I bless them for activities unbounded Say our God is not a solemn old curmudgeon Their folly then belied the earnest tied and grounded Freed from stark importance laid on with a bludgeon Could it be they heard on entering The Hereafter Not only harp strings, but the joyful sound of laughter 10 September Contest: My Upcoming Birthday Celebrity Sponsor William Kekaula