fool
n.
One who is deficient in judgment, sense, or understanding.
One who acts unwisely on a given occasion
One who has been tricked or made to appear ridiculous; a dupe
(...)
v. fooled, fool·ing, foolsv. tr.
To deceive or trick; dupe
(...)
Foolish; stupid: off on some fool errand or other.
in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,
Fourth EditionCopyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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"If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool."
a clown's smirk in the skull of a baboon... (LI)
a clown's smirk in the skull of a baboon
(where once good lips stalked or eyes firmly stirred)
my mirror gives me,on this afternoon;
i am a shape that can but eat and turd
ere with the dirt death shall him vastly gird,
a coward waiting clumsily to cease
whom every perfect thing meanwhile doth miss;
a hand's impression in an empty glove,
a soon forgotten tune,a house for lease.
I have never loved you dear as now i love
behold this fool who,in the month of June,
having certain stars and planets heard,
rose very slowly in a tight balloon
until the smallening world became absurd;
him did an archer spy(whose aim had erred
never)and by that little trick or this
he shot the aeronaut down,into the abyss
-and wonderfully i fell through the green groove
of twilight,striking into many a piece.
I have never loved you dear as now i love
god's terrible face,brighter than a spoon,
collects the image of one fatal word;
so that my life(which liked the sun and the moon)
resembles something that has not occurred:
i am a birdcage without any bird,
a collar looking for a dog,a kiss
without lips;a prayer lacking any knees
but something beats within my shirt to prove
he is undead who,living,noone is.
I have never loved you dear as now i love.
Hell(by most humble me which shall increase)
open thy fire!for i have had some bliss
of one small lady upon earth above;
to whom i cry,remembering her face,
i have never loved you dear as now i love
e.e. cummings
the joke:
the joker:
