I Am Pagliacci

creative contentment

I’m a big fan of a musical artist named San Holo. Last week I revisited his 2021 album bb u ok? for the first time in about a year, and I was reminded of a bizarre track on the album called “the great clown Pagliacci”. It’s not really a “song” so much as a monologue put to a bit of music. Here are the “lyrics”:

A man went to the doctor one day
He said, "D…