The big top

I remember the winter

the circus came to town.

***

A few kids skipped

school to see the show.

***

“Whoah!” We said, when

we saw the empty desks.

“Luckeeee.”

***

But the next day, their

desks were still empty.

***

Then our teacher came in

and said several of the

children absent from class

had been rushed to the

hospital for poisoning,

but they were fine.

***

Furthermore, she explained,

there was no circus in town.

It was just a home that was being

fumigated for insects.

***

“Whoah!” We all said,

A home being fumigated for insects!?

“Luckeee.”

42 thoughts on “The big top

  1. As someone already pointed out, the children decided to flee the classroom in order to attend a flea circus. If any of the children took a dog with them, I suppose some of the fleas were able to escape the fumigation apocalypse.

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  2. From the rumble seat of the great circus clown’s crowded little car, one couldn’t help but notice that the back-up cam had a bug causing it to face forward, so, from the driver’s seat, the great one couldn’t see the human cannonball coming to exterminate bugs.

    “We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.” – Marshall McLuhan

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