Carnival Minds Poem by Robbie Squires

Theyre sending letters to the fallen king
He cant read but he can sing
Like a blind man that knows where he is
Or a virgin that has 3 kids
Excalibur has taunted the beaten stone
Belittled, berated, and told to go home
The streaming moonlight flows into the church window
Nobody is around, this feat is unknown
They are all drinking at the saloon
They are drinking whiskey on the moon

They circus is in town but nobody has gone
Only performers are in the tent
The town they have come to is empty of bodies
Only corpses pave the streets like bricks
With blood as the cement to stick
But they knew, the actors knew all along
But they show up anyways to sing their carnival song
With no one to watch but the caged animals
This is how they live
But their lives are but shallow

They know much more than a Harvard professor
More than congress, and more than the senators
Not one hour of school over the age of 16
Dropped out of high school when it turned that day
Live life on the road, the way it should be
Drifting carnies forever they will stay
But they know more than the statesman
Much more than the elderly diplomats
And they learned it all from the road their on
By living hidden in the back
Theres a lesson deep within this story
To look beyond the degrees and plaques
That going to school might do ya some good
But common sense is solely where its at

Through the back roads and the gurneys
To the pilots and between the trees
You might stop and take in the scenery
But that doesn’t matter much to me
All that matters is whats inside you
Just you and nobody else
Think long and hard about somethings
Some others need no thought at all
And when a great idea comes to you
Keep it locked up well on the inside
Because people are lousy scoundrels
Because they cheat, they steal, and they lie