Praise for the fool

Praise for the Fool

Everyone sees the Fool-
who rips and raves and thrives off the moment,
never giving a flip, as if the flip could ever give back,
and with his long life of laughter, all he cares is to be a jester, 
that kindest clown of forever. 

Everyone loves the Fool-
because he’s free, and when he trips, he smiles
and tells a joke before he impacts with reality,
no matter, his reality is always Zero, a kind of everywhere zone,
where the potential of Zero is infinitely expressed yet always unknown. 

Everyone hates the Fool-
that sucker son, who defies One
with a tongue in cheek, raspberry critique, 
while he dances the klutz’s dance to a different beat, 
which our feet find rather maddeningly incomplete.

Everyone needs the Fool-
for his non.sense approach, 
which one’s.sense sees as a Wonderland defense, 
because we’re all falling down the same rabbit burrow,
so on the way down let’s laugh good and thorough. 

1/3/08
M. L. Michael

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