Who Makes Clowns With Sad Faces Laugh Poem by Terence George Craddock

baffling is urgent need social mystery
in times past when people ran to the circus
to see laugh at clowns with sad faces

people worn down or run desperate
to laugh have fun social entertainment
to see laugh at clowns with sad faces

is it because people cannot laugh
at sad events tragedy in their own lives
does this make acting out clowns

funny funnier with sad painted on faces

this raises an old question
who entertains funny circus clowns
who make crowds laugh

when the clowns are sad
will an entertainment hypnotist
strip away make up layers

leaving clowns with sad painted on faces
nothing left to hide behind no comfort masks
left with a shrinks bill prescription pills bottles


Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
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