Pretend the circus was just created. It was still new, mysterious, and popular. Would you join my freak show? What would your act be? Do you have any strange talents? Or anything scary or wild you ever wanted to try? Would you use modern science to try to create a magic show? Or tame lions and tigers without whips? Would you be super flexible? Jump through hoops of fire? Invent strange machines or have a puppet show where you tell captivating stories? Have you ever wanted to run away with the circus at all? Or maybe you'd just like to run the ticket booth, find a way to spice up the ordinary. Anything at all. Maybe you just want to be part of the crowd and enjoy the show instead of being in it. Tag me :)

Finder

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That will be $20.

I can read minds.

I know

only those troubled

seeking affirmation

of their own beliefs

come to me.

I can see anguish in your smokey eyes

fear in the twitch of your lipstick lines

anger in the clinched contours of your jaw

surprise in your microbladed brows

why do you hide your pretty face?

you’ve been hurt

a man perhaps

something to do with the letter G or S or W or P or K or M?

do those mean anything to you?

You blink.

Mathew? Mason? Michael?

Unaware

your hand quickly brushes

something away from your cheek

a gnat, perhaps an itch.

Michael

left you with a broken heart.

Your body jerks ever so slightly when I guess.

I see lost love.

Michael will always regret losing you

and be miserable forever

wishing he could take back

everything he did wrong

and

have it

to do over again

loving you the way

you deserved.

But you, my dear, will find your true love

very very soon.

Look for the color blue.

That will be $20.

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Freak Show

Pretend the circus was just created. It was still new, mysterious, and popular. Would you join my freak show? What would your act be? Do you have any strange talents? Or anything scary or wild you ever wanted to try? Would you use modern science to try to create a magic show? Or tame lions and tigers without whips? Would you be super flexible? Jump through hoops of fire? Invent strange machines or have a puppet show where you tell captivating stories? Have you ever wanted to run away with the circus at all? Or maybe you'd just like to run the ticket booth, find a way to spice up the ordinary. Anything at all. Maybe you just want to be part of the crowd and enjoy the show instead of being in it. Tag me :)

JohnAulus

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Contorted-

They stare at my body

Contorted like a

Ball-and-socket doll.

Skinny, bones showing through thin skin.

They come into the tent,

Eyes darting to me and to the ground, back and forth.

Unable to make up their minds if they want to run

Or keep their glassy eyes on me.

I promise you

I will watch them.

I will watch them squirm

Under my gaze.

My folded body holds power

And I can make them gasp

If bend myself grotesquely.

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Freak Show

Pretend the circus was just created. It was still new, mysterious, and popular. Would you join my freak show? What would your act be? Do you have any strange talents? Or anything scary or wild you ever wanted to try? Would you use modern science to try to create a magic show? Or tame lions and tigers without whips? Would you be super flexible? Jump through hoops of fire? Invent strange machines or have a puppet show where you tell captivating stories? Have you ever wanted to run away with the circus at all? Or maybe you'd just like to run the ticket booth, find a way to spice up the ordinary. Anything at all. Maybe you just want to be part of the crowd and enjoy the show instead of being in it. Tag me :)

catnameddog

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The Freak Show

I would definetly join the freak show! I think my talent would be being a trapeze artist who could jump through rings of fire. I would run away with the circus and find parts with them to make a really cool machine that could make people able to time travel and teleport! The circus and I could also make a lot of money off of it and the circus could be famouse!

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