Morning Song of a Thousand Clowns

Still from A Thousand Clowns, 1965

Morning Song by Alan Dugan

Look, it's morning and a little water gurgles in the tap.

I wake up waiting, because it's Sunday, and turn twice more

than usual in bed, before I rise to cereal and comic strips.

I have risen to the morning danger and feel proud,

and after shaving off the night's disguises, after searching

close to the bone for blood, and finding only a little,

I shall walk out bravely into the daily accident.