Do we turn in sheer disgust
From things our eyes, they cannot trust
Our sensibility we goad
Repulsed by loathsomeness of toad
With images that turn and sicken
In horror, makes our pulses quicken
Of visions, that we cannot speak
There’s deluge of in movie, “Freaks”
A film from 1932
Prescient in strange world view
A circus of anomalies
Portrayed as tight-knit company
But trouble comes in form of woe
A “normal” pair conspired so
Plotted to kill the dwarf named Hans
But drunken kiss reveals their plans
And heroes bent, marred and contorted
Band together, peril thwarted… But punishment was to be meted
On culprits that had been defeated
An eye-for-eye, of pure mayhem
They turned the woman, one of “them”
A thing that people spurned and shunned
When premiered made the public run
But time has made our viewpoint change
Those images seem not so strange
Those barriers that needed smashing
Director that could show compassion
Never meant to demonize them
Success in goal to humanize them
Acknowledge abnormality
Found grace in their humanity…
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