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HomeOpinion & ReviewsTerry from Derry: Cirque du Vengeance Part Deux

Terry from Derry: Cirque du Vengeance Part Deux

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By Terry Boyle

It’s been an interesting time at the circus. Bozo and the ringmaster seem to have gone on some mad tirade of firing important people that they later realize they need. Amazingly, the new people they’ve hired are a strange of mix of idiotic imbeciles.

Nevertheless, the circus will become great again, or at the very least, it will go out with a bang and not a whimper. ​All over the world​, people have been agog at the shaping of things and wondering what might happen next.

There’s speculation that Bozo and the ringmaster will part company once their real motivations become exposed. Some have suggested Bozo is enamoured by the ringmaster’s money. The latter has enough money to send skyrockets into space.

It’s believed he’s hoping that the aliens might help him out with the design of the ugly truck he’s recently invented. It appears one man thought it was simply an elaborate weapon and decided to bump a few people off with it.

The ringmaster obviously has an exaggerated sense of self-importance. Cracking the whip, firing people at whim, has certainly not endeared him to anyone with a sense of justice, and fair play.

Though when it comes to either justice or fair play, Bozo and he are in harmony. Stay tuned, it’s rumoured that they’ll soon release their first duet together called xenophobia.
It’s bound to be a massive hit with their supporters all over the globe, at least that’s what his press secretary says, and she works for the Ministry of Misinformation.
 
The lyrics are a compilation of sound bites from former ringmasters, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, etc. Bozo and our ringmaster have a fondness for the strong misogynists, and anti-liberal types.

If a circus is to succeed in this brave new world, women need to learn how to please their men folk, while books containing liberal ideas of diversity, and equal rights should be burnt. And who doesn’t love a good fire, especially one that consumes dictionaries, history books, science texts, and some of the risqué parts of the bible.

The idea behind such extreme measures is not to dumb down the masses, but to keep them ignorant. This circus has more important goals than investing in education.

When it comes to knowledge, this will be dispensed by Bozo and the ringmaster. They are the font of all knowledge. Every word they say is God breathe.

It’s said that Bozo climbed up Mount Rushmore. Initially, he was on a field mission to see if there was enough room to carve out an image of his head. It seems there is not.

But while he was up there, he had a vision of sorts, one of those religious revelations of epic proportions. Some divine entity, it could’ve been the ringmaster’s alien friends, commissioned him to shake things up. The circus he would create would outshine every other one before or after.

His circus would herald in a golden age of universal chaos. Bozo’s profound belief in this vision was enough to convince the greatest of sceptics, a Russian president.

Indeed, Bozo has rewritten the script when it comes to Russians. They’re not the enemy, they’re our friends. We have to be less suspicious of our communist neighbours, and greet them as family. If they invade another circus, and threaten its welfare, then it is what good ringmasters do.

Bozo encourages us to give up these countries under threat for the greater good. Such a radical policy change ​marks the new era we’re in. Soon, we’ll see smaller countries eaten up by larger ones to help them survive.

Bozo suggests that we should even incorporate Canada’s circus under our own big top. His plans to expand his circus should go unopposed, since he’s been divinely appointed to carry out a mission.

Censoring his critics is part of what makes him great. He now has the power to rewrite history. I once heard a man, a spy from another circus, say that Bozo had been a naughty boy in Russia, and the details of his time there were captured on video tape. If what I heard is true, our Bozo is a fan of quite an exotic form of entertainment.

He’s currently hiring some female performers to see if they can match their Russian counterparts. I’m sure they’ll shower him with all they’ve got if he pays them enough.

When the press got wind of this story, Bozo was keen to threaten them with every judge he had in his back pocket, and he has managed to secure a lot of judges in high places. It won’t be long before he has the run of every court in the land.

Give Bozo credit, he’s a man of his word. When it comes to revenge, he’s not someone to be toyed with, unless you have video tape evidence, and even then, he’s going to pretend it’s bogus. The man is a genius when it comes to lying and getting everyone to believe in his perversion of the truth.

His circus of revenge is really taking shape. Getting rid of all those who oppose him is only the first step. Once he’s established himself as the rule maker, we will see a new kind of circus.

Of course, to do this work, he will have to take liberties with our finances. A dream demands sacrifice, and if he must stop paying out Social Security, and financing Medicare, to make this dream of a new kind of circus come true, we should be grateful.

Having purged all those who aren’t legally showmen and women, fired those he deems expendable, and taken the money from a scheme we paid into our circus, he will finally become a shining example of what a circus should be, or will it?

I still have doubts, but I’m sure that with enough book burning, and control over social media, he​ will allay ​these doubts. Soon, I’m sure, I will worship at the shrine of our lord ignoramus, with all the other devotees.  

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Terry Boyle
Terry Boyle
*Terry is a retired professor now living in Southern California. Originally from Derry, Northern Ireland. In 2004 he took up a position at Loyola University, Chicago where he taught courses on Irish and British literature. Apart from teaching, Terry has had a number of plays produced and has recently been included in The Best New British and Irish Poets 2019 - 2021 (published by The Black Spring Press). He can be reached at: terryaboyle@gmail.com
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