Flim-Flam from LOUNGING POET by Charles Cicirella
Image: Jackal
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Lyrics
Flim-Flam
I told her I was a jackal.
She didn’t listen.
They never do.
I knew when first meeting you in Canton we were similar in similar ways.
I’m still not sure if you understand that or if you ever will.
People like us are too often underestimated or undervalued, but that’s before all of the votes are counted and someone’s crown is relinquished and someone calls the Feds.
I told her many truths and even spread some lies on top for good measure.
I’m a comedian with killer instincts and the timing of a purloined patron saint.
When I was a child I wanted to either be a talk show host or an oral surgeon when I grew up. I’m still not exactly sure what an oral surgeon does and for talk show hosts once Letterman retired there was nothing more to talk about.
I told her a lot of things and she seemed to buy most if not all of it because she was either gullible or hungry for love and what’s the bloody difference when your Nielsen Ratings suck and sucking someone’s schwantz is seen as the same thing as good oral hygiene.
I fell asleep during Jeopardy and when I woke up there were two new contestants and everything seemed just a little bit off. It was as if I had climbed through the looking-glass and was now just another Alice-wannabe chasing a white rabbit and desperately trying to feed my own head.
Orson Welles played the part of Harry Lime perfectly because he understood the ins and outs of a seedy underworld and that to be an unassailable confidence man you need to first have confidence in oneself.
I cleared my throat and when I spit only flim-flam came out, but no phlegm.
I have a friend whose father loves the circus, but from the way my friend talks it makes his father no easier to talk to or connect with. I wonder why that is because in my estimation someone who loves the circus would be an all-around good guy and yet that does not seem to be at all the case.
Now I am thinking of John Wayne Gacy who was a convicted American serial killer and rapist who sexually assaulted and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 in Chicago. He became known as the "Killer Clown" due to his charitable services at fundraising events, parades and children's parties where he would dress as "Pogo the Clown", a character he devised himself. Oh and he also painted quite a few clown portraits.
Charles Cicirella
7/28/15
