The Laughing Space Clown

From a 1979 poem written during my LA Times paste-up days to a 2026 film with my own vocals. Green, black, rainbows and a literal rainbow on a brown/beige striped couch.

The Laughing Space Clown

Written by Vicki Lawana Trusselli

Copyright 1979

As I sit on my couch of brown and beige with orange stripes,

Striving for observation

While I was observing the apollo flights,

We finally learned the setting of our planet.

It appears as a big blue marble

Floating in nothingness

And the further away,

You get from it

The less detail

is observed

until it becomes just another

speed of light

in the black……

The clown sits on the time

the time that

speeds onwardly

he sits there, ostentatiously

in his orange, yellow, and brown suit

polkadots omnipresent

I sit here and think of what

Has happened through the years,

Of our time, of living planet of survival

Survival of green, black, rainbows

Of fears, of our tears of today,

Of yesteryears,

The facts, the expediency of

Happenings

of now and then…..

The laughing clown sits on my

Couch of brown, beige of rainbows….

WRITTEN, EDITED, CREATED BY

VICKI LAWANA TRUSSELLI

TRUSSELLI ART

OUTSTAGES CAFE ART STUDIO

CALIFORNIA

copyright 2026