The Arrest Of The Mundane

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“Life As A Circus”

Erasmus Cromwell-Smith
3 min readAug 23, 2020

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Life is like a circus

with the same exact cast of characters

popping out of its book pages.

We are surrounded by “ringmasters”

pulling strings, building, and running civilization.

We find “acrobats”

like equilibrists or trapezists

that defy gravity

performing jaw-dropping pirouettes

as part of their daily lives.

We marvel at the “magicians” and “illusionists”

who make us believe,

in what is apparently real

through their ability

to dream, visualize,

enhance and augment mundane reality;

And some of them actually dare

to make it a better reality,

causing incremental quantum leaps

for the advancement and evolution of society.

We stumble into “jugglers”

who master dexterity and multi-tasking,

as if was second nature to them,

in order not only

to meet the challenges of a complex world,

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