09-10-2014, 09:17 AM
They’re folding down the big-top tent
inside a dust-bowl desert fair
where elephants have come and went
and trod from here and back to there.
I rode the giant wheel back down
after I cleared the shimmering top
of that big tent where all around
its spotlights lit my gentle drop
from swirling winds and whirling stars
into a blending mass of clowns
who promised all the world was ours.
We melted back into the towns
and brought stuffed elephants along
to claim we won them for a song.
inside a dust-bowl desert fair
where elephants have come and went
and trod from here and back to there.
I rode the giant wheel back down
after I cleared the shimmering top
of that big tent where all around
its spotlights lit my gentle drop
from swirling winds and whirling stars
into a blending mass of clowns
who promised all the world was ours.
We melted back into the towns
and brought stuffed elephants along
to claim we won them for a song.