Big Top

2 minute "Michael Jackson" free verse challenge.



When he
touched-down
on the moon

madness rotated
some distance
beyond

& the media glare
from telescopic
spyware
singed a hole
in the sun’s
stellar core

it was distracting -
and disheartening
and sickening,
but the boy danced
his way through

interrogative flashes
paparazzi surging
upon doorsteps

like wasps
colonizing
a secluded picnic

much more absorbing
than the current
state of the world

so stick fingers in ears
& gawp

at the shiny-shiny
neon lights

the circus has come to town.