NaPM April 3 2015

[rayheinrich]

              < Headin' down the Midway* >       (*Sideshow Alley)
               
                Foot-long flaming hot dogs
                guaranteed to save your soul.
                Jesus slips his meat in
                while the Devil toasts your roll.
               
                Women slice their breasts off,
                then each man cuts off his balls.
                They fry them up in butter
                and the best get Kewpie dolls.
               
                Gypsies snap your head off,
                let you toss it in a ring.
                If it stays inside it
                then you get to keep the thing.
               
                Burning men and women
                light the midway up at night.
                Doused in wax they're screaming,
                it's distracting, but it's bright.
               
                Ask them where the Circus is,
                they'll tell you with a smile:
                "Stay here on the midway,
                  it's about a half-a-mile."

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