#freakshow - Hello Poetry

Gleaming and glittering with gold Wonderous surprises for young and for old From the isolated jungle where the cameras roll To the handheld screens where cosmetics are sold Years before you'd peak in a tent To look at the lobster boy and the girl with four legs Call them a freak, laugh, run and hide After you left, the freak sat and cried Today we sit back in our comfortable seats Ignoring real heroes who achieve great feats To gawk at the rich man who can barely read And laugh at people with mental disease The modern-day freak show has arrived The circus has evolved before our eyes Being taught to point and laugh at those that are different Is a gateway drug to prejudice and racism

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May 22, 2019

May 22, 2019 at 4:34 AM UTC

MBLewis

Modern Day Freaks

Gleaming and glittering with gold Wonderous surprises for young and for old From the isolated jungle where the cameras roll To the handheld screens where cosmetics are sold Years before you'd peak in a tent To look at the lobster boy and the girl with four legs Call them a freak, laugh, run and hide After you left, the freak sat and cried Today we sit back in our comfortable seats Ignoring real heroes who achieve great feats To gawk at the rich man who can barely read And laugh at people with mental disease The modern-day freak show has arrived The circus has evolved before our eyes Being taught to point and laugh at those that are different Is a gateway drug to prejudice and racism

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Portable Carnival. You pack it up and roll it away two weeks to the day that it arrives. The lives of these carnies have never mattered. They exist only as a part of the traveling freakshow. Something we pay money to stare at, to laugh at, to mock. It’s degrading, but it’s how the freaks have to earn their living. It’s how Two Toe Toby affords his next meal. But he doesn’t have a favorite sit down restaurant, because they keep putting him back on a bus and sending him to a different city to manage the tilt-a-whirl; And all the hurling ***** from children's’ stomachs that are full of corn dogs and cotton candy. Portable Portajohn. A traveling **** storm. Citizens come and give us their paychecks in return for cheap thrills on rinky **** rides that spin their minds into oblivion. Just so they can say they’ve tasted the clouds and all of the pollution that surrounds them. And just like that, we leave again. Vanishing into our next city, for a scheduled two week period.

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Jan 16, 2019

Jan 16, 2019 at 11:56 AM UTC

lunamoonbug

Portable- Horrible-

Portable Carnival. You pack it up and roll it away two weeks to the day that it arrives. The lives of these carnies have never mattered. They exist only as a part of the traveling freakshow. Something we pay money to stare at, to laugh at, to mock. It’s degrading, but it’s how the freaks have to earn their living. It’s how Two Toe Toby affords his next meal. But he doesn’t have a favorite sit down restaurant, because they keep putting him back on a bus and sending him to a different city to manage the tilt-a-whirl; And all the hurling ***** from children's’ stomachs that are full of corn dogs and cotton candy. Portable Portajohn. A traveling **** storm. Citizens come and give us their paychecks in return for cheap thrills on rinky **** rides that spin their minds into oblivion. Just so they can say they’ve tasted the clouds and all of the pollution that surrounds them. And just like that, we leave again. Vanishing into our next city, for a scheduled two week period.

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Behold the wondrous, the strange The odd, deranged! The beautiful, the hideous Now get you a ticket You don’t want to miss it! The shock and all the fright and surprise Gather around! Feast your eyes! Tall and short, young and old Ladies and gentlemen, here we go! This is the Freakshow! Hello, hello I’m Mike! I chew on glass and yes, I bite. So watch out or I just might Impale my skin with an iron spike Oh, I see you that you really like that Watch me swallow swords and survive it Watch me spit out flames The highest that you’ll ever see Do you dare mess with me? Now walk on by, keep on going There’s more to this show than what we’re showing Behind the curtains, away from the viewing There is a plan that the freaks are brewing But no matter, pay no mind You paid the fee and they’ll stay confined Oh! Looky here! Isn’t this exhibit grand? These are our lasses of highest demand!

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Mar 27, 2018

Mar 27, 2018 at 8:35 PM UTC

MildlyUpset

Freak Show. ( Part One )

Behold the wondrous, the strange The odd, deranged! The beautiful, the hideous Now get you a ticket You don’t want to miss it! The shock and all the fright and surprise Gather around! Feast your eyes! Tall and short, young and old Ladies and gentlemen, here we go! This is the Freakshow! Hello, hello I’m Mike! I chew on glass and yes, I bite. So watch out or I just might Impale my skin with an iron spike Oh, I see you that you really like that Watch me swallow swords and survive it Watch me spit out flames The highest that you’ll ever see Do you dare mess with me? Now walk on by, keep on going There’s more to this show than what we’re showing Behind the curtains, away from the viewing There is a plan that the freaks are brewing But no matter, pay no mind You paid the fee and they’ll stay confined Oh! Looky here! Isn’t this exhibit grand? These are our lasses of highest demand!

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What am I? Mother, father, (ladies first) Can I be pretty? It's warm in here, a green- house of orchids. The ladies & gentlemen come in to have a look, woman's always first. At least, give me the benefit of doubt; Will I ever be pretty? Doesn't matter much to me, only, ladies first, describe what it means to be ...human-god. Human-god, human-god. Jesus, and I can carry my doubt like a knapsack through the cloud of eye-ful bodies, (fellow gods)

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Dec 22, 2014

Dec 22, 2014 at 7:42 PM UTC

sarah-sad-matcha

Ibrido

What am I? Mother, father, (ladies first) Can I be pretty? It's warm in here, a green- house of orchids. The ladies & gentlemen come in to have a look, woman's always first. At least, give me the benefit of doubt; Will I ever be pretty? Doesn't matter much to me, only, ladies first, describe what it means to be ...human-god. Human-god, human-god. Jesus, and I can carry my doubt like a knapsack through the cloud of eye-ful bodies, (fellow gods)

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They call me a raving lunatic My mind is poor and sick Manic vagabond, mystic sorcerer Snake Oil Salesman, Son of Lucifer Given wings of Raven feathers Cursed to live in stormy weather Chaos lives beneath the color of my painted teeth I've a dark mind indeed, of morbid persuasion Come sing along to your damnation Ride the cannibal sensation Devise a way to survive the game Or you won't get out alive again Alchemy infernal, elixir of dark might Inhale the emerald Smoke of Jesterian Light Given to us a seventh sight Arise to conquer the lies this night Our darkest night A beast, a fiend, a wicked thing I'm a regular madman A creep, a dream, a demon seed A regular madman Indeed Follow me through the thick of the trees Over roots and rocks and dying leaves To a darker realm of mystery Where everyone is a freak like me A better place, you'll see A better place indeed

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Oct 16, 2014

Oct 16, 2014 at 6:06 PM UTC

xan-abyss

A Regular Madman

They call me a raving lunatic My mind is poor and sick Manic vagabond, mystic sorcerer Snake Oil Salesman, Son of Lucifer Given wings of Raven feathers Cursed to live in stormy weather Chaos lives beneath the color of my painted teeth I've a dark mind indeed, of morbid persuasion Come sing along to your damnation Ride the cannibal sensation Devise a way to survive the game Or you won't get out alive again Alchemy infernal, elixir of dark might Inhale the emerald Smoke of Jesterian Light Given to us a seventh sight Arise to conquer the lies this night Our darkest night A beast, a fiend, a wicked thing I'm a regular madman A creep, a dream, a demon seed A regular madman Indeed Follow me through the thick of the trees Over roots and rocks and dying leaves To a darker realm of mystery Where everyone is a freak like me A better place, you'll see A better place indeed

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