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Clowns Showing Teeth
All the malls have certainly changed,
full of rubbish, screaming children,
and sinister clowns, baring their teeth
between pale red lips, watching me, mockingly,
intently, like pinkly-bewigged gangs at twilight
loitering with murderous intent.
Obviously clowns are not what they
used to be: death mask make-up
slathered on like sour pie cream,
no craft, no art, not much color,
all sweating something foul
like spoiled, greasy butter.
The circus is over,
the masks are off ,
but the face of Bozo still grins
into his dressing room mirror
while coldly loading his revolver
Thomas White has published his poetry widely
in Australia, including in Imago (Queensland
University Press) and Gangway, as well as read
his work on Sydney and Canberra local radio. In
North America, Tom White's poetry has been
published in a Wisconsin poetry magazine The
NeoVictorian/Cochlea, a Canadian journal The
Eclectic Muse and Nuvein, a California poetry
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