I wandered lonely as a clown
With thoughts too sad to mention,
When all at once I came upon
A lonely clowns' convention
Dave Carr
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Oh my goodness! This is lovely!
ReplyDeleteHowever, I have the feeling that, if you really wanted to, you could take this narrative further!
After all, the piece it pastiches has four verses, of six lines each. And a pair of lines such has: "A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company" must surely be fit for parody - alternatively, just re-use them (a bit of inter-textual referencing)!
Hi Dave,
ReplyDeleteThis is a clever and perceptive piece which says all it has to say within its strictly delineated format. I have wandered for years searching for such a convention and have possibly wandered close without realising it. I once met a clown who was crying in the gutter and when i asked him what the matter was he said he had just been removed from just such a convention, for being too conventional, though for the life of him he couldn't tell me where it was,
Max fake and phony tears Shallow