Audience Participation

The billionaire showman

of the carnival his father bought

forces us into a ring where we fight for scraps

and betray our friends for the chance

to survive another night in the land of horrors

The showman gives us piles of bones for bedding

We eat the tendons and scraps for breakfast

until the bone shards in our bellies

hemorrhage

slowly and surely

The affluent audience laughs

at the display of our desperation

because they don’t realize that they’ve become

part of the show