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Where are our clowns With baggy waist-coats Filled with promises; Clowns wearing Borrowed crowns. One plucks a rose In his white garden, To pin on his lapel; He's a squirter And it shows. One's in the square With large red shoes Putting on a show. But feet don't fit, Soon he'll trip With tongue-in-cheek ego. One has rhine-red ruffs Around her neck, Her GNP Surpasses debt; Her audience finds They too get wet. A three-ringed circus We're wise to regret. One in the Yuan Has a red nose on, A harlequin clown Asleep in red dawn. But tweak his nose And the tent comes down On the Big Top Shows.
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Mar 6, 2015
Mar 6, 2015 at 8:53 AM UTC
Clowns
Where are our clowns With baggy waist-coats Filled with promises; Clowns wearing Borrowed crowns. One plucks a rose In his white garden, To pin on his lapel; He's a squirter And it shows. One's in the square With large red shoes Putting on a show. But feet don't fit, Soon he'll trip With tongue-in-cheek ego. One has rhine-red ruffs Around her neck, Her GNP Surpasses debt; Her audience finds They too get wet. A three-ringed circus We're wise to regret. One in the Yuan Has a red nose on, A harlequin clown Asleep in red dawn. But tweak his nose And the tent comes down On the Big Top Shows.
francie-lynch
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Mar 6, 2015
Mar 6, 2015 at 8:53 AM UTC
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