Your frown is a silent accordion
playing down, standing up
standing on fierce ceremony
changing like a carousel
A big tent, this religion
its tenets intense and precise
decorous rules tricky as trapeze
sharing everything save faith
This is the circus of our discontent
perched at my waist, sparrow-hope
and at bottom, on buttered tongue
a juggle of a few thousand inherited words
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