28 November 2012
Lester the jester Tell me a joke Can you disappear In a puff of smoke
It's time to do What you're hired to do Now pull a flower From out of your shoe
Do some backflips Sing me a song I don't want to believe Hiring you was wrong
For I am the king Of this castle and land Kneel down and kiss This ring on my hand
Lester was born With nothing to lose And even today He lives with the blues
He decided to jest As a jester would do And fool the mean king With a card trick he knew
As he asked the king To pull out a card The king didn't see Lester raising his arm
Only a second It took for Lester To sink in the knife in A long shiny dagger
The kings men rushed And Lester fell down "You tricky bastard" "You lying clown"
Blood gushed from the wound That would prove to be fatal The king was no longer The head of the table
Lester cried out As he stretched on the rack The man in the mask Cut open his back
He drew one last breath And Lester cried out "Live laugh and love" The blade came down
Lester thought now in his severed head Before the lights go out And I'm good and dead
I'd rather have lived And tried to be free Than be owned by a king Who won't let me be me
Lester died With a smile on his face And never again Was a king in that place
c. 2012 BZC
Jester • Opuss № I