Who teaches us the meaning of Life's truths in cap and gown?
Not the smug professor, but the laughing circus clown!
His cap is patched and jingles with the sound of jester bells.
His gown is gaudy and immense; it holds delightful spells.
He's given tenure by the crowd to caper and explain
that thinking our existence is a burden must be vain.
His lectures may be silent and be full of custard pie,
but his conclusions never blush or have to tell a lie.
Exuberant and ever keen all ignorance to throttle,
he graduates his students with a brimming seltzer bottle.
The clown is our best teacher, since he goes straight to the heart
and never complicates things like that old Rene Descartes.
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