acrobats and clowns

who leave a warm cozy apartment
on a cool rainy summer night
to go see the clowns and the acrobats
hoping for midnight fireworks?

the suburb train was deserted
but we had tickets, fifty euros each
Le Cirque du Soleil finally in Paris
nothing to miss just for a thunderstorm

dressed to the nines in bright colors
warding off the gray shadows
of clouds trying to spoil our excitement
we bought helium balloons like children

and feasted on roasted peanuts
cotton candy and bright orange soda
happily dry inside the huge tent
big enough for a cathedral

applause was our magical tribute
to the splendor of circus dreamland
quick bittersweet tears fell as
in wonder we strolled home

under the raindrops, innocently
splashing in fresh puddles
as if we were too were the clowns
marveling in the simplicity of the night air



acrobats and clowns
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