send in the clowns

Where the neon lights electrify signs
Of bilateral paralysis
When the head of the bed is raised
above the beast
Who roars uncharted melodies
Steered and seared walking on flames
For the golden child lost
Afraid and shadowed
Manipulated
Molded
Marauded
Maligned
scratched by the icicles of winter’s discontent
where the heart beats attack
Like Poe’s thump, thump, thump
Alighting the darkness of insanity
Artistically provoked into psychosis
Dream no more
The record stopped turning
With the needle’s rip
Music no more
Sound galore
Where the muffled cacophony begins
Her journey ends
She has permission from spies and lovers
Incognito, nameless, faceless
Touching the screams
Touching and scratching and ripping and thumping
Humping and touching and stroking and joking
Hysterical grin cuts the symphony’s salute
And the clowns bow at their ringmaster
Where the primary colors create rainbows of sweetness
The grey elephants produce steaming piles of life regurgitated
And the children scream and pull on mother’s teat
Get out now!