Jester

Painting by Michael Dixon

Jester


I’ll be the guy in the clown suit,
life in a backpack,
pushing a shopping cart full of old newspapers,
crushed carnival horns, rusted crap (I love rust),
a sketchbook, a notebook, an ocean, a seahorse,
marbles, some shiny hooks, snakes enough for two…
also a basket of frogs, a cornfield, a waterfall,
a house big enough for all the family,
and all the friends, and all the ghosts
of our ancestors, the unborn, and everyone
who never had a chance,
and all those who got burned,
and all who are frightened,
and all who are alone,
and all who search for meaning,
and all who follow a calling,
and all who know the gods,
in all their many shapes and forms,
and all who recognize them
in the people around them,
and all who don’t.

Rick Mobbs

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