Awaiting Deflection

Spinning circles, running laps
Losing patience, taking naps

Counting train cars, killing time
Wasting seconds, wrecking rhymes

Elephants in human pants
Sap-stuck clown shoe blues
Highwire temptress tangles thought
Gazing down, forgets she forgot
to paint her face and all that rots
Under the veil of Joy

Packed up and rolling out town
Down a clown
Weird sounds
and whatever came unwound

Cycling stations, volume down
Dangling tightrope, broken clown

Dragging moments, melting wax
Scrapping time spent, burning tracks