A Peddler rolling through
jingle jangles, peppering bawdy
riddles by the pound, of fortune
cookies saying “TRY AGAIN”
next to a smiley face, upshot eyebrow,
emoticon grin, but they aren’t buying
translated laughter, so buy billboard
pasty faces, that will work
is the thought, strike again
to an 0-2 count, so he goes big
on a bungee over skyscraper
color platform, unicycle juggling
accordions, everyone laughing
to a gasp when he fell,
oh well, at least he was funny
once, an awful droll joke.