Clownish Round and Round

Face stung by depersonalization, caked and gobbed

so eyes of two can tower anonymous.

Round and round, makeup descended, blood runeth

cold...blood runeth warm.

Clown's base rigor mortis white contrasted by pools

of blood-red.

Upturned lips to smile, downturned eyes to cry.

Nose...of a consummate drunk, or the irritated swell of

tissue-happy crying.

Bodily motion spent in a capering given to the clown's

colorful daemon.

Bloated aerodynamic garb giving the birthday-suit

room to freefall the roles it was cast in.

Clown...pinch...perfect...overdone, multicolored 

burning bush wig at home...ever at home with clownish

head.

O clown--built by laughing tracks and the hollow of

broken peanut shells.

Konstantinos Mark

Reviews

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. to be "built by laughing tracks and the hollow of broken peanut shells" ... and still make others laugh is about an existence so tragic that it shames death ...