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the carnival is full of people

laughing, screaming, riding mechanical animals

flashes of colored light beam across the night sky

smells fill the air

dust rises and falls along the pathways

 
pathways of footprints leading in every direction
a small boy stops and bends down to look at the feet of passing people
his head turns sideways as
he imagines the world turning on it's side
 
 
the boy
released from his mother's grasp
wanders through the maze of people towering above him
the ferris wheel reaches into the absence of light
with torn ticket in hand - he climbs aboard
as he reaches the top he looks up at the stars, counting them one by one
the cool summer air wraps him in a blanket of immortal youth
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