Freak ShowMy best friend and I paid two dollars to see the freak show. ![]() Fat twins with oily mustaches and stomachs round as storage drums— ![]() even a bearded lady with a beard that twitched as she laughed at the fat twins. ![]() Two dollars more and we saw a man turn into a gorilla; green strobes ![]() and smoke rolling as gorilla-man bared his teeth at young girls— lips curled, snarling, run. ![]() And for one dollar more we saw the world’s smallest woman in a pup tent beside the cattle show. ![]() A dozen small machines surrounding a body the size of my left thigh. Manure in the air. ![]() An oxygen mask fixed tight to her face and band aids like pockmarks scarring her skin. ![]() My own image floating up to me in the mirrors that surrounded her. |
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