The Fool

Framed A3

Indian ink and water on paper

$1,800


If you were still here today

Would you listen to what I say

Or would you shake your head in shame

When you see that I am not the same


If you’d stayed and played the game

Could I still play in your parade

Or would you turn and walk away

And wonder why I turned out this way


*


The laughing clown

Is in the ground

You came and went

Without a sound


For one last joke

Hanging from a rope

You came and went

While you choked


*


TOMORROW I’LL BE DEAD

HAHAHAHAHA . . . .


*


. . . You said

You just wanted me to laugh

For a while

I could have saved you with my smile

But no

Uh oh . . . 


*


And how was the world

So clear in your eyes

Did you ever wonder like me

Or could you already see

Did you already know


*

The dancing clown

Laughs in the ground

Your pants were down

When you were found


One last joke

Before you choked

You blew your load

Hanging from that rope


*


I THINK THOUGHTS LIKE YOU

HAHAHAHA . . .


*


. . . You said

That yours just happen to be true

And I smiled

But you had turned and walked away

And I stayed

Aha

Oh no . . .


*


And was the world really

So clear in your eyes

Did you ever wonder like me

Or did you already see

Were you already free

*


The laughing clown

Is in the ground

The world goes round and round

(round and round)


But as you choked

Hanging from that rope

You changed the world

Just for a joke


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JUST FOR A JOKE

HAHAHA . . .


*


(Just for a joke)

And we see into the unseen

And we hate what we have been

And is anything what it seems?

And did you read what I just wrote?