Mr. Tinkles, Clown Extraordinaire

Clown wears a straw hat,
and a bra and suspenders
and calls himself
Mr. Tinkles, Clown Extraordinaire:
he smokes all Daddy's cigars and
stubs them out on the kitchen table
he smells like armpits and
old tuna salad sandwiches
and his hair looks
Don King covered in pasta sauce--
he tells lots of jokes that aren't funny and
spits when he talks
which makes his makeup run off his chin
then he asks if we have any requests
for more obscene and crazy balloon animals
strewn across the table
in a perverted dance line
Mommy is screaming Daddy is crying
Mr. Tinkles, Clown Extraordinaire
came to the wrong birthday party.