Balancing Act

Remember Ed
Sullivan, when he
used to have
on those jugglers,
only they didn't
really juggle
they just
balanced spinning
plates on sticks
with one
leg raised,
spinning a
hood and
keeping hoops
spinning, too,
about their
forearms
while way up
high,
balanced on
the plates
beneath the
spotlight was
a lone,
jittery coffee
cup?  And
how the
performer
would sweat
as he,
like Atlas,
balanced all
this crap?

For some strange
reason this
activity has
fallen out
of fashion.
That's a shame.
Maybe
someday I'll
take
it
up.