The ''Elephant'' Children --
The True Gothic Tale Unending of Manifold Monsters Doomed
"The biological rarity captivates each freak of nature."
-- the Coney Island Sideshow by the Seashore
* * *
The creeping creepy creep show's cryptic carny crook and con
descending silhouettes bedimmed from out a darkling gloom
on creatures cracked and crazed encaged a living silence don
a worm bit costume stitched to bear beyond the clap of Doom
till relic time worn rusty creaking open Cruelty's doors
to stale salt peanuts popcorn jelled and thread spun sugar sell
while walking shadows strut on fretted barf beer cig butt shores
yet dotting oceans vast and deep wherein the monsters dwell
grotesques boxed up boxed in by backdrop backup thugs and screams
revulsion shudder shock shriek howl of laughter chilling thrill
and Murder moving in to circle slow the tusker dreams
each harvest turnip carving sliced in Gothic overkill --
and not one freak faint mercy feels beneath the drooling rain
as each dread thing reborn is on the coming Horror's pain.
* * *
a dedication of Respect
for
the Suffering of each past, present, and future
''elephant'' baby
a revolving helios sonnet menippean satire on
natalism --
the ideology hubristic of countless doctors
unlicensed --
each named
"Frankenstein"
january, 2023 -- the resurgence of carnival "freak shows" yet doing a business
brisk
. . .
feetnote
According to the blithely optimistic MedlinePlus,
Proteus Syndrome --
commonly called "The Elephant Man" disease --
happily is a rare condition with a
felicitous incidence of less than 1 in 1 million infants worldwide,
blessedly having affected
"only a few hundred" cherubs --
to date."
Copyright © James Starkey Iii | Year Posted 2023
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