circus again
Gobbledocks - your enthusiasm is catching!
You may need a special matinee performance, because I heard a rumour that Hydra would like to perform.
He wants to walk THE TIGHT ROPE!
Just imagine how it could be. The slimy little worm balanced precariously on the high wire, tottering a little as the bully and the coward in him vie for position.
He takes a step and looks down, wondering maybe why the faces upturned below are so quiet.
Then pride replaces the bully and the coward and he takes another step - and slips a little.
Will the tentacles clinging fearfully to the platform, save him if, perchance, he should fall?
Some have already detached themselves. After all, leaderless self-preservation is preferable to death.
Then our Hydra oversteps the mark. The next step misses the wire and he plunges to an
ignoble death into the arms of the infamous ranks of ghouls, who once thought they too, were above the law.
The crowd is hushed. Strangely, no-one cheers; but a quiet satisfaction pervades the tent. Perhaps now, Hydra will be buried with the corruption, the hurt, the anger and the waste, in an unmarked grave.
Anyway, it will make a good show. Please keep me a ring side seat.