buffoon
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laugh …
please feel free
the fat old man is here for
your entertainment
‘there must be a purpose that we strung
the aged fool along for’ …
right??
it’s not that I feel like an impish idiot...
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Categories:
whiteface, age, analogy, growth, life,
Form: Free verse
The Zany Zoo Or the Island of Dr Morose
...locked in cages for study and further experiments All for comic relief of a tragedy, we would not want them to sad, would we? ...
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Categories:
whiteface, allusion, funny, humanity, humor,
Form: Free verse
More Than a Clown
...I don't want to play anymore,
it's time to put away my mask.
Although people still need to laugh,
I'm no longer up to the task.
My act is no longer funny,
I'm but a relic of the past.
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Categories:
whiteface, career, character, depression, feelings,
Form: Quatrain