the circus comes to town

The circus. Equal parts exciting and terrifying. I see this big-top appear, overnight, in the local park and I'm powerfully drawn to it, my inner child suddenly as excited as he used to be on Christmas mornings. But, grown-up me is very slightly unsettled by it. I never read a book, or saw a film wherein a circus coming to town didn't bring something sinister and wicked with it. In the next few days, there will be much joy, and laughter reverberating inside that big-top, but not all of us will sleep easy in our beds until it leaves town.  




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