Pagliacci

'Smiles refresh the soul',
frequently said my dad,
well, I became a circus clown,
I smile but am always sad,
it's a vagrant's honky tonk life,
the lion tamer sleeps with my wife,
this drove me unreasonably wild
and now the customs' lady
is expecting my child,
it's life the Bohemian way,
like today's society going astray,
I hate it more every day,
the vernier - all smiles and well,
hiding the soul's inner hell...


Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2009 Alfred Charasz