Freakshow - Manticora

I have visited the freakshow in the circus.\nI am appalled at what I saw but at the same time it attracts me and makes me\nwonder who is the freak between the spectators and the sad souls performing.\nSome of them are amputated, some are mutilated.\nThey’re marked and they’re scratched, as if cut by knives.\nOthers are mentally abnormal and disfigured, but they have no other way to get\nby in their lives.\nStones and rotten fruit thrown at them are breaking them down day by day.\nIt’s an immense institution of humiliation.\nI’m sure the screams of pain and endless disgrace will haunt them forever.\nTo me it’s organised desecration.\nBut when the curtain finally falls and the crowds recede, the show is over and\ndone.\nThe freaks of the show are counting their money and fall asleep one by one.\nThey repress the fact that tomorrow will be another day, so they silently dream\naway, trying in their minds to keep out the unease and meet the scoffing,\ncome what may.\nOh, what money can make people do…