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The big top

george RAYMOND42 Comments

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.

“Lucky.”

***

But the next day, their

desks were still empty.

***

Then our teacher said

several of the children

absent from class had

been rushed to the

hospital for poisoning!

But — they’d be fine.

***

Furthermore, she explained,

they hadn’t been at the circus,

at all, but a home that was

being fumigated for insects.

***

“Whoah!” We said.

A home being fumigated for insects!?

“Lucky.”

42 thoughts on “The big top”

  5. 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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  12. 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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