“Surely, You Jest!” a poem by the Bard of Murdock

It’s Sunday and today’s poem by The Bard of Murdock pokes fun at the absurd reaction to the antics of a rodeo clown in Missouri recently. The poem was originally published on Sunday August 18, 2013. Please be sure to read the article linked by the Bard before reading the poem.

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Surely, You Jest!

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Article link: Sensitivity Training Required for Clowns

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I’m off to get retraining

In matters entertaining,

So I can work the circuit at the fair.

My previous engagement,

A suitable arrangement,

Turned out a catastrophic bit of fare.

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I hesitate to mention,

I broke the new convention

And did a bit the fair would not condone.

I wasn’t quite discerning

In what I did concerning

The man who sits atop the gilded throne.

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The present situation,

For those of my vocation,

Constrains us from a mocking word or deed,

About the politicians,

In loftiest positions,

Whose playbook is the latest leftist creed.

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So further education,

And mental reformation,

Is on the docket for my chosen trade.

And when we have been bettered,

Our presentations fettered,

We once again can join the clown parade.

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The Bard of Murdock

My goal is to produce poetical cartoons. I try to use metaphors and caricatures (or a politician’s own words) to address complex political and social situations. In this way, I sum up current events in humorous verse.