Bach's Boy and the Bassoon  

The fat man bounces jollily  along
With now and then the admonitory display
of a wave with wiggling fingers at the throng
of ladies gliding around him on his way ;

and all his rounded plumpness of silhouette
that casts an ovoid shadow on the ground
does not restrict his occasional pirouette
or high heel clicks, or his elastic bound.

Less slapstick version of the red-nosed clown,
he follows his own roly-poly course;    
a skipping balloon that occasionally drops down
but rises again with irresistible force.

Would that I could such strategies employ
to express myself with such easy bubbling joy!