Those commonsense people of Cloon describe a fool as "one that is laughing and mocking, and that would not have the same habits as yourself, or to have no fear of things you would be in dread of, or to be using a different class of food." May it not be the old story of the deaf man thinking all his fellow guests had suddenly lost their reason when they began to dance, and he alone could not hear the call of the pipes?

Lady Gergory, Shee Eire

Part I:

I sing,

I shout,

I laugh

At pain,

At jokes,

At despair,

At happiness,

When I'm happy, I laugh,

When I'm sad, I laugh,

The laughter is

dark and insane,

It comes when you've been sad too long,

It comes when you've had too much pain,

when you can't take it anymore.

And the madness stays with you.

Part II:

We're all the same, you and me,

Bleeding through the heart,

But we'll never stop.

Got that?

We are the fools,

Cutting up,

Laughing with the blood coming out,

That most can't see,

We'll keep going,

Cause we can't stop,

Even when the blood's

Gone,

We'll keep going,

Cause if we don't,

We'll die.

The heart's stopped beating,

But the fool's still laughing.

A/N: This was inspired by the Amadan na Briona, (may he never knock on your door) but Heath Ledger's Joker fit this perfectly, so... yeah. Happy Halloween, or if you're pagan, Samhain.