Sideshow Freak

I am the star attraction in a sideshow
It is because I am so damned ugly inside
Ugly emanates out of all my pores
Hurry, hurry hurry!  I ain’t got no pride
My heart is hard and my lips are thin
I am the rotting portrait on the wall
My voice brays loud above the din
of Harpies in the form of Barbie Dolls

Then, when it’s time to do my bit
I just rip off my mask
Children scream, ladies faint
the men all shit their pants
Wuhduhyuh expect? I’m a sideshow freak!
Yet I look exactly like you all do
You are in a portrait looking just like me
However….. you’re not me, I’m you

But she’s the daughter of a Silver Baron
Inquisitive that goes missing
My Hoss-like character gonna save
Her pretty little ass
I am the star attraction in a sideshow
Little Egypt in Montana I’ve hit a Bonanza
They said I couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn….

Only Seven Faces, Dr. Lao
cain’t you do any better than that?
Where are the Sirens Singing Sweetly
just pull ‘em outta your ass, Jack
Medusa’s out a’lookin’ for Gorgon
she is a’wantin’ to turn him to stone
Ol’ Mother Hubbard,
when she went to the cupboard
was the one who done got a bone

©2014/duke larance ~ the drugstore cowboy poet
©2014/Sage Sweetwater, Firebrand Lesbian Novelist