Poetry

Thursday, 2 December 2021

You must be Jo King

 Oh the clowns lined up

Two or three deep rows

Like an army of Edom

All marching from Rome

The clowns are freed from their slavery

In bondage to the King of the laughing gnomes

He lays them out upon his lawn

And sprinkles them about

With wild corn

They must laugh now

They mustn't cry

For the first clown to do so

Will surely die


Oh what became of those

Laughing slaves?

Who marched across

The sea of waves

They left him laughing in his throne

Belly aching tongue lolling

Beads of sweat on his brow

And shaking violently

Epileptic King

Whose madness was

The lust of laughing

The joke it seemed was at last on him

And all his castle walls so thin

For the laughing wolf pack

They soon got in

The howling hyenas of Jo King


His soul was buried in the rubble

When the clowns

exploded their laughter bomb

The joke went off, but was a dud

The real punch line came from God

Who let lightning fall and strike

The spire that conducted down into

The choir

And the singers burned as they were singing

For the king

His praises learned practicing

The joke which taught the king to kneel

The Clowns left off, high tailed across the field

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