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The burlesque circus clown [revised] (Free verse) by Don-Quixote
Corrupted and profane
is he the poet undone;
a sly blue collar comic
whose voice raves
in assorted tongues.
With vigor he flouts
the sapless and those
willing to oppose him.
A buffoon in the burlesque circus
is he the poet undone.
A vicious Hydra in the freak show
is he the poet undone.
Proud and stubborn in his arrogance,
he rises up before the morning sun;
mask painted bright
before the show has begun-
waiting to be revealed
as he the poet undone.
Resented or acclaimed
it matters not,
because when the charade ends
everyone will leave undone-
exposed by the light of dusk
before a smiling jester;
the fool who has won,
masked before the setting sun.
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