The barrel bellied patriarch
of the "Living Statues"
balances the weight of his lissom lads
out upon his oaken trunk
like they were his own limbs.
Circus work, like every other kind,
becomes biography, the old mans' tenure,
his tenacity.
And I ran away to join the circus too,
when I was young.
And was never heard from again.
--1984?
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