Be a Clown, Be a Clown
At a benefit concert last night, one of the performers sang a song about how, when he was a child, he wanted to join the circus. I suspect that many children have had the same idea. I did not, then, nor do I want to now (I went to a circus only once, and found the experience unpleasantly loud and smelly), so I was struck by a line of the singer’s lyrics: