FARCE

via Daily Prompt: Farce

The orange faced buffoon centre stage, gesticulates, his fingers point, effeminately. In the background, bit players, lackeys and yea-sayers smile, grovel and fawn while, in the foreground, uniformed bullies beat the undergrowth.  ‘Is this a farce?’ asks a bemused onlooker. ‘Oh no, it’s real,’ he’s told.