Sideshow to and fro

They swivelled without squeaking
Until someone took to one with a bat
Then it was on coz I mean he really took to it
With popped-out eyes and hissing and blasphemy
Trying to knock its big bloody mouth off its face

And just as, beneath the festooned globes, a crowd started to gather,
In one crazy decompression, the bat lost its air
And the man dropped to the dirt sobbing and pleading
For rain