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