Strider Marcus Jones

Clown

stop!

drop!

plop!

at what

in what

for what-

three

vows

drowning.

sad set eyes

and red nose why's

smiley,

half mask thin-

the rambled ruin

you put a clown in.

Strider Marcus Jones is a poet, law graduate and former civil servant from Salford, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. He is the editor and publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/