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The Clown

The clown Circuit circuits moving round in circles swings and roundabouts junctions dead ends living closures and beginnings The fool wise man woman child in all posits mocks understands the world beauty horror misgivings paths ahead and gone retrieved adventoured learned felt inspected long gone present Re-chisseles comprehends in jest and wonderment The jester foolhardy and foolproof scribes in stone and pencil when fool’s gold is just enough where paradise develops based on hopes beliefs and inner truth The clown speaks joy in face of darkness insight desperation inspiration sweating away the clouded skies of dogma digma paradigm A joker true to juddered jibes jewels miracles astonished tunes informal charters melodies and scented wordings bridges schisms buffering the madness infinite insanity impoverished delusion A senseless idiot giving idioms meaning iconoclastic impromptu impropriety making sense of what there really is A bubble blower whistle blower soapy gentle creature carbolic and pugnacious peaceful warrior observing pulchritude a journeyman The circuits circle circuses' loops and rounded loopholes spirals intervening interweaving fabrics tapestries makes the clown

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