The Circus is in Town

It was madness. The scene was something even a bad acid trip couldn’t produce. I must have somehow missed the news…the circus is in town again. The infamous tent that all the children used to picture in their minds as they anticipated their first experience; the clowns, the hoops, the elephants, simply is no more. Now, it is in the streets and boy, they are swarmed with figures that are all shapes and sizes, colors and outfits. Some are young, some are old, some yellow, some black, some white, sweet Moses…some are really white. Most of them are the wide type of freak others, the few, are as thin as light posts. One of them even had a trumpet and wailed for every dollar that one of those beasts could spare.
No elephants or monkeys here. No man, this isn’t that type of circus. The lion bit with the flaming hoop is missing too. Shit, if I bought a ticket for this wild bunch of maniacs, I would try desperately to pass it on to some sucker or even try and return the ticket back.
It became instantly clear at that moment that this was no ordinary circus, the animals had been replaced, but by what? These things move like I do, on two legs, some only on one…poor bastards. A few of these wild untamed primates walked tall with expensive professional camera equipment others even had a crew of 6 maybe 8, flashing lights, radios, sound records…it was something out of planet of the apes.
We have all heard the expression “we live in a concrete jungle” I would like to revise that little line about this city. No, I think “jungle” is too kind of a word. And after this fine experience this simply justifies my next statement. We are in a circus, and the circus freaks and tamed animals have been replaced with these beasts from Alabama, Missouri, North Carolina, Washington, Japan, China, Spain, Switzerland and let me say this about that, they unlike the animals in a circus, they run wild in our NYC streets

-W 42nd and Time Square, desperately avoiding these tourists as they have clearly hijacked the streets 8/13/2010