Two 'clowns for a day', Peckham Clowns Club, 1979.

A Clown
Both urchin and dotard,
he is sly, then innocent.

His effrontery is self defeating.
His simplicity a contrivance.

By pretending mischief,
he effects laughter

and confounds himself
to delight us.

(Gael Turnbull, Circus)
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