Title:
Welcome One and All
Rating: K+ (ish)
Mood song: Stockholm Syndrome by Muse
Pairings: none
Word count: 255
Notes: It took a review from DarkfireKitten to make me remember a favorite person of mine I've been meaning to drabble about: FREAKSHOW! So, uh, here's a Circus Gothica drabble. A poem-thingy because I'm a poet at heart.

"My name is Freakshow, how do you do?
I'm here to invite you to something completely new.
Let me introduce a circus of ghoulish demands,
With creepy clowns with skeleton hands.
Come my troubled children of black, white, and grey;
Come to Circus Gothica, and please enjoy your stay.
For here we have things inside this tent to make you scream,
Dark illusions and phenomena from your most frightening dreams.
Circus Gothica is not for the weak,
Not for those afraid of blood and gore and the incomprehensibly bleak.
But if you are like the twisted vampires that stalk the night,
We welcome you with open arms and on a silver platter deliver Fright.
Hues of red, black, and grey,
Come any time during night and day.
We ensure your eyes will behold
Contorted mysteries never before told.
Ugly tales of Grim Reapers and the walking dead,
Please watch your choice of seating in the audience, or else you will lose your head.
We will show you tightrope walkers and rings of fire,
Where death is probable as they both rise higher and higher.
Watch as our performers show you great feats,
While you stuff yourself full with carnal carnival treats.
If you are considered to be punk, Goth, or emo,
Then you belong here with us; I hope you decide to go.
So won't you come, one and all,
Into our tents both big and small?
We'll be sure to be the most civil of hosts,

"…But don't be surprised if we're all ghosts."