Prompt: A joker card from a deck of playing cards
Written: August 2011 for a Creative Writing class

The joker of the class
Always getting the laughs
Yet still he’s the outcast

52 cards in the deck
Aces, Queens, Jacks, and Kings
But of no real use is he

A bright happy yellow he appears
No one sees what he fears

The blood and bruises
hidden with long sleeves
Yet the joker is all they see