rustbeltjessie:Postcards from the Circus, 5: Dear One (The Art of Burning Bridges and Grinning Broad
rustbeltjessie:Postcards from the Circus, 5: Dear One (The Art of Burning Bridges and Grinning Broadly) // Jessie Lynn McMains, June 2021Dear one—I knew a man who was his own ten-in-one. A trickster with a three-ring brain, the magician from his own tarot deck. He breathed fire in every town from Bridgewater to Birmingham, got kicked out of punk clubs and burned city halls to ash. He was a legend, the kind that comes in the night in a black coat & boots, that tempts you to follow your circus heart’s most overwhelming desires, makes you wonder if you’re dreaming. And in my dreams, I burnt every bridge and followed him from Chicago to Chattanooga. But one day I woke to find him gone & there were no more circuses for me to join. I’d spent so much time running away. I never would have left, had he stayed. -- source link
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