My heart is thumping like the stomping feet of elephants. Can you not be so cute? You’re making me act like a clown. If I could, I would do backflips like an acrobat. We all know I’m no contortionist. I’d try, though, if it would impress you, make you sit back and eat popcorn. But I can’t provide that kind of entertainment for you. Not yet, anyway. Keep buying tickets.
This is the revamped version of a poem I wrote when I was in college. We were assigned to write something with circus imagery and I popped this one out. It was probably the first time I ever took myself a little bit serious while writing poetry.