THE CIRCUS

When the Circus comes to town
Don’t Go
When the Circus comes to town
Don’t advertise
When the Circus comes to town
Don’t buy or sell tickets
When the Circus comes to town
Don’t village up family and friends
to come along
When the Circus comes to town
Get your cotton candy
and unnecessary lighted plastic objects
somewhere else
When the Circus comes to town
Go to a movie
Read a book
Take in a concert
Go for a walk
(the other way)
When the Circus comes to town
There’ll be nothing you haven’t already
seen
heard
done or
been
including entertaining
the doesn’t exist
E L E P H A N T
in the room
When the Circus comes to town
G O
to another city
borough
state
country
continent
galaxy
universe
G O
or just meet me and the other
familiar faces
in the front row
or any one of the
THREE RINGS
When the Circus comes to town
know it’s never really gone