Circus Minimus
Mate,
Great excitement in the village as the Circus arrives. Over on the green there's a huge circle of international scale caravans, like a pikey encampment on steroids, complete with a six foot satellite dish and a Big Top in the centre. I imagine the circus is doing excellent business, both in ticket sales and in distribution of videos of hard core porn beamed down via the dish.
It's one of these 'modern' circuses with acrobats and so on rather than wild animals. This is probably because it's easier and cheaper to drag a troupe of acrobats around Europe than it is to transport a tiger. However, it's far less exciting in the '…has escaped from the Circus' stakes. A loudspeaker car going round the neighbourhood and warning people to stay indoors because a clown, rather than a tiger, has escaped just does not have the same impact, even if it is backed up by the image of blokes from the circus chasing Uncle Whuppity down the street with butterfly nets while somebody with a tranq dart tries to shoot him in the arse.
So there has never been a better time to run away from home and, when one has to walk past the circus on the way to the train station and wage-slavery every morning, one does think for a second that perhaps life in the circus would not be so bad, sleeping late, sweeping up after the clowns and maybe bedding a contortionist!
Great excitement in the village as the Circus arrives. Over on the green there's a huge circle of international scale caravans, like a pikey encampment on steroids, complete with a six foot satellite dish and a Big Top in the centre. I imagine the circus is doing excellent business, both in ticket sales and in distribution of videos of hard core porn beamed down via the dish.
It's one of these 'modern' circuses with acrobats and so on rather than wild animals. This is probably because it's easier and cheaper to drag a troupe of acrobats around Europe than it is to transport a tiger. However, it's far less exciting in the '…has escaped from the Circus' stakes. A loudspeaker car going round the neighbourhood and warning people to stay indoors because a clown, rather than a tiger, has escaped just does not have the same impact, even if it is backed up by the image of blokes from the circus chasing Uncle Whuppity down the street with butterfly nets while somebody with a tranq dart tries to shoot him in the arse.
So there has never been a better time to run away from home and, when one has to walk past the circus on the way to the train station and wage-slavery every morning, one does think for a second that perhaps life in the circus would not be so bad, sleeping late, sweeping up after the clowns and maybe bedding a contortionist!
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