Kathy Polenberg - March 2007

 
THE DAY I QUIT THE CIRCUS


I heard the screaming
first I was there
taking the matter
into my own hands
when it did land
I slapped it
alive
I admit it
dove in where the
action always is
the Big Top
center ring

the hanging trapeze
midwives pissed off
on strike cause
their act is cut
with scissors
into little
dainty doilies
don’t stare
but if you
look hard
they fold like poodles
and midgets

the air
inside the tent got
hot and danger
filled with flying
pinking shears
snipping pretty
the kamikaze clowns
cut the cord
opening a whole other
context for
their act
to fall through

after that it got ugly
it got real messy
when they folded up
the tent and took it
on the road
looking for a
booking the
scissors juggler
circus midwives with poodle
hair bitching sisters

this is
no place for a man
mister you best
make for the door
I fainted myself
dead on the floor
cause no fucking way
was I mopping
this one up



Kathy Polenberg has had poems recently in Thieves Jargon, Zygote In My Coffee and Poor Mojos Almanac(k) – She has recently appeared to be a humorless crank on message boards, but this is not the case. She is a 47 year old female and resembles real people living or dead. E visit her here: http://www.freewebs.com/outsiderartist/index.htm  if you want.