Jester

I have no influence with anyone
Who matters, with the power to invest
What's needed, or to bargain. I suggest
That I am just a fellow full of fun,
Contentious, ribald, dark, the kind they shun
In circles where they think they know what's best
For everybody else. They run some test
To separate my kind from theirs; I run.

Not only do I run from influence,
I take it on the lam from anything
That even looks like reaching for the ring.
I might perhaps say, in my own defence,
That living as I do in indigence
Makes hash of all my contact with the king.