The Whole Circus Has Come to Town
With all the familiar clowns
A villanelle poem on vetting a new supreme court candidate
The whole circus has come to town
Their banners and posters and games
With all the familiar clowns
They chant those old slogans aloud
They banter and bluster and rail
The whole circus has come to town
They gather the children around
Spin fables and old fairy tales
With all the familiar clowns
Bright colors and hairdos astound
Their markers and drawings and frames
The whole circus has come to town
Puppets on platforms abound
And stilted men enter the fray
With all the familiar clowns
Twist the pretzels and meanings and sounds
Fill their mouths with unquenchable flames
The whole circus has come to town
With all the familiar clowns
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