Seven Clowns

Seven Clowns

with AI illustrations

Lucy Lemons

Lovely Lucy Lemons likes
Cottage cheese with pickled beets,
Pecan pie and parakeets,
Friendly dogs and wild geese,
Little kids, the name Bernice,
Party tricks and riding bikes.

She also knows some dirty words
And secretly can talk to birds.

AI prompt: draw a cartoon-style, landscape image of a cute young woman clown on the left, with a parakeet on her finger on the right. The parakeet has a speech bubble with musical notes, showing that it's singing. The clown has a speech bubble saying "Me, too!".

Mrs. Cake

Mrs. Cake is too much fun!
She carries seltzer like a gun:
At the bank thought it’d be funny
To pull it out and ask for money!

Arrested for pranking, first degree,
Went to jail but then got free…
Later got sent back again
For throwing pies at policemen.

Draw a cartoon-style, landscape image: a smiling lady clown with a big fluffy pink wig is handcuffed in front with palms down. She is being arrested by two angry policemen (one with a mustache, one without) with white cream splattered on their uniforms. The clown has 'CREA' tattooed on her right-hand knuckles and 'MPIE' tattooed on her left-hand knuckles. Behind these central figures, you can see a happy children's birthday party in the background.

Bully Blue

Everyone’s scared of Bully Blue!
He’s dirty, loud, and stinky, too.
He laughs when children skin their knees,
He tosses kittens into trees.
He puts salt in sugar bowls
And pulls the heads off marigolds.

Draw a cartoon-style, landscape image of a heavy adult clown with blue hair and a blue, star-patterned suit, laughing and pointing with his left hand at a crying kid with a scraped knee next to his fallen bicycle, all on a sidewalk.

Little Big Top, the One-man Circus

Did I ever tell you ‘bout LBT?
Greatest liar you’ll ever see!
He once told me and some girls we knew
That he invented the color blue
And owns a diamond mine in France;
And claimed he taught his cat to dance
The Charleston, and also that
His mother was an acrobat
And father was the King of Sweden
—And every one believed him!

But I looked it up, as one should do:
It turns out none of that stuff’s true!

Draw a cartoon-style landscape image of a short clown at a bar talking to an attractive woman. The clown is leaning in and the woman looks very interested in what he's saying.

Bonjour Chalamet

Bonjour Chalamet’s a tiny clown
Who’ll crawl into your brain.
He’ll fill your head with bad ideas
Until you're quite insane!

Prompt: Draw a cartoon-style image of a very tiny clown climbing a ladder into a woman's ear. There should be no ear hairs visible. The bottom of the ladder is not visible (it is out of frame). The top of the ladder is resting against the woman's lower ear. The ear should also be drawn in a cartoon style. The clown should be holding a burlap sack over his shoulder. The tops of firework rockets are sticking out of the bag. The clown is dressed like a mime and smoking a cigarette. 

Benny Fortuna

Benny Fortuna, blessed fool,
Looks for nickels in the streets,
And tells jokes to the girls he meets  
Outside the Cath’lic school

It’s a good life for a clown to live,
Plus Benny’s so damn funny,
All the girls line up to give
Him kisses and their money.

Prompt: make a cartoon style, landscape-format drawing of a skinny young clown in a baggy white clown suit with blue ribbon trim talking to three teenage schoolgirls in the street in front of a school. The clown has short blue hair and is wearing a beanie. There are no colors on the clown's outfit except for blue and white. The clown is doing a silly dance to amuse the girls. The schoolgirls are laughing, and one of them has a dollar in her hand and is holding it out to the clown. 

My Girl Sally

Sally has a secret treat,
Something sweet for me to eat.
You might think it’s in her bonnet:
Actually, she’s sitting on it!

I want it bad, but I don’t know,
If she’ll let me have it, though;
I pray my darling has a plan
To satisfy her hungry man!

Draw a cartoon-style, landscape image of a pretty lady clown wearing a bonnet and sitting on a cardboard box. In the background is a campground with wagons for the circus performers to live in.