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Saturday, April 11, 2020

VANITY FAIR





     You wake up, out of nowhere, in a carny county fair,
     And everythings for sale, and you are poor.

     Like most, you pay for the right to pay more and more
     For less and less: cracked kewpie doll, torn teddy bear,

     Grease-soaked corn-dog that clots to glue in the throat,
     And a chance to gawk at the two-headed man
     And the woman with the legs of a goat.

     Your head whirls till flat earths a tilted carrousel,
     And you stagger among the enameled saddles,
     A child bedazzled by every twirly, flashy thing;

     You lurch to the hysterical calliope,
     You lunge for the flying brass ring.

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