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"The Man Who Never
Loses His Balance."

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"He walks the high
wire in the sleep.

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The tent is blue, it
is perpetual afternoon.

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He is walking between the open
legs of his mother and the grave

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always.

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The audience knows this
is out of their hands,

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the audience is fathers
whose kites are lost,

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children who want to
be terrified into joy.

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He is so high above
them, so capable

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with a single calculated
move of making

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them care for him that
he's sick of the risks

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he never really takes.

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The tent is blue,
outside is a world

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that is blue, inside
him a blueness that

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could crack like china
if he ever hit bottom.

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Every performance deep down
he tries one real plunge off

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to the side where the net
ends, but it never ends."

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