Thursday, October 21, 2010

Circus

Out in a field by a highway that's littered

With trash there's a tent that's quite gaudy & glittered.

Amidst the waste paper and shards of old glass

There's ponies that nibble on patches of grass.

On patches of grass where there's soon cotton candy

Blooming like flowers too scented and randy.

Clowns looking tired, with wrinkled white faces;

Roustabouts, vendors – pretty hard cases.

We are looking for dreams when we go in the tent

While sitting on bleachers that we only rent.

Like a stone wall in the tropics with geckos,

Our dreams are but bug-driven barking and echoes.

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