Crazed Carnival


The fair of folly arrives in town:
The furled-up banners are flopping down,
The Fool is enthroned as the King of all.
So welcome: idiots, leap and fall.

The clowns cavort on the midway strip,
Revolving acrobats tumble, flip.
The Fool himself on the trapeze wire
Disports himself in a dizzy gyre.

The madness mounts and the crowd joins in,
The laughter of lunatics makes a din:
The circus tent s an asylum jail
Imprisoned spectators weep and wail
And Folly triumphs. Fools prevail.
04-09-84

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