Tuesday, April 2, 2013

The Carnival


The carnival leaves town...
The carnival always leaves town...
It goes away, far, and far.
When the carnival leaves town, the children...
Die.
The carnival leaves town,
No laughter.
The Ferris wheel is rocking back and forth.
The corpses fall from the seats,
Egad, the children stuffed on candy apples,
They've grown fat and sluggish.
The town stops for the carnival.
The lights all dim because everyone's gone...
Gone to the carnival.
Night after night.
The faces blur together, and the clowns laugh themselves to sleep.
Walk down the boardwalk
With the nice music and the nice people and the nice treats and the nice rides.
No one wants the carnival to leave town.
Cotton in my mouth.
I cannot scream.
When the carnival leaves town. 

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