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In black and white
In darkness and in light
on paper
on film and
within a heart
a note is struck.
Words are running across the empty pages,
and pictures, pictures are
dancing in the peopled darkness.
Laugh, laugh, all you people.
Because the clown has fallen again
and we are amused
we are hilarious.
Only problem: hearts are breaking like
cheap dishes, every day.
And death, like an unfunny funny uncle
is waiting
a dark-eyed clown in enormous shoes.
Copyright 1997 by Cheryl Hanna
I think we’ve all met an unfunny, funny uncle and we don’t particularly want to meet him again, even when we have too. Sometimes life is a dark circus, indeed. But even the darkest circus has many colored lights.
