Neptune's Circus

An Egyptologist came by camel to Camelot

Came to Neptune’s circus

Rode in there with green apparel

Climbed down the cliff side staircase

Left the land of sand and stone

Exchanged it in for sea and cross bone

Saw clown fish laugh

And clams applause

As the long decked raft

Broke in the shark’s jaws

Watched booming white comets of surf

Shoot up and spray

Like Pennies dropped down to earth

And fireman octopi with their long hoses

Bedraggle the Angel fish who stride with Moses

And see the sea part then like curtains

Closes

After the Israelites depart

From under Egyptian noses

And he came to Neptune’s circus

It was worse now that he had purpose

And the thoughts and the thrills

That burbled in the rills

On the outskirts

Of circus Marquee

Like the frills of lady jelly fish

Who came to dance the dark Fandango

In the light fantastic of the underwater

Universe

Or the solemn hermit crab

Who crept with all his red fingers drab

In the cuticle of minutiae of telescopic beetle burrs

The Egyptologist stopped

Mouth agape at the dead Sea

Staggered like a sand dune to Galilee

Those place of the hieroglyphs

Were seemingly these gyro cliffs

That turned around a merry go-round

Or carousel

And in the fairground grinding organ music

Spoke of oysters, barnacles and other molluscs

As he stared at the starry night above