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The Dog Act I'm the warm-up act. I punch myself in the face across the makeshift stage. Fall through imaginary trapdoors. Like the devil, I turn cartwheels & set my hair afire. Contradiction, the old barker drunk again on these lights & camaraderie. The white poodles, Leo, Camellia, St. John, & Anna, leap through fiery hoops to shake my hand. I make a face that wants to die inside me. "Step right up ladies & gentlemen, see the Greatest Show on Earth, two-headed lions, seraphim, unicorns, satyrs, a woman who saws herself in half." I can buckdance till I am in love with the trapeze artist. Can I have your attention now? I'm crawling across the stagefloor like a dog with four broken legs. You're supposed to jump up & down now, laugh & applaud. 5I from Lost in the Bonewheel Factory ...

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