The Clown

With layers of gaudy makeup
white mouth, yellow face and
a red nose to make it worse
and sporting a child's garb
for so-called comic effect
and what is he without it?
when the paints are peeled
and the dress is changed
a very bitter man, I am sure,
as he goes out the exit door
I am the same or even worse
for I can't peel off the paint
nor this dress can I change
can leave the stage, but once