Title
Lucien and Mario the Corsican Brothers
Artist
Ed Meredith
Medium
Photograph - Sliver Gelatin Print
Description
A Story of My Three Moms...
I am the bastard son of Elroy "Mix" Pitts and Elisabeth "Zereena" Rouset.
My father Elroy was a circus carnival Geek and my mother Elisabeth,
who abandoned us when I was seven, was a beautiful Magician’s assistant.
She was last seen preforming with a Magician, "Mandrake the Amazing”, at a
parking lot show in front of the Apollo Feed and Grain store in Crooked Creek Iowa.
A stagehand and sometimes sideshow performer called Wart was the last to see her.
Wart said she was angelic in her white dress, beautiful and smiling at here reflection
as she stepped into a full length mirror that was filling with smoke. "Then she turned”,
he said, "gave a little wave, winked at me and disappeared into the mirror.
She was never seen again.
My Geek father never recovered from that last act of losing her and lost his appetite
for chicken and rodent heads. He began to binge on fast foods, candy and donuts
literally putting himself out of work because no one would pay to watch a sad fat man
eating Big Macs and Snicker bars.
My father and I spent the next few years traveling with the carnival “Because” as he often said,
“I don’t know how to do anything else and who's going to hire a over weight washed-up
has-been Geek anyway”. Fortunately for me, I was taken under the tutelage of the
Carny Forman and was able to learn some circus skills while cleaning up after the elephants
and bears. It was a bear the change that chapter of my life.
I was almost eleven when my Geek father tried to take some marshmallows from one of
the bears, he only survived the attack for a few hours but I vividly remember his last words,
"I sure could go for a bacon and cheese stuffed deep fried pig in a blanket", I asked him if
he would like fries with that but he never answered.
A few months later my adopted guardian the Carny Forman, was shot and killed by the
Bearded Lady who thought he was cheating on her and having an affair with the Sword Swallower.
She shot him with one of the 'HIT THE BULLSEYE AND WIN A KEWPIE DOLL' rifles…
and once again, I felt alone, abandoned.
Fate however, decided to smile upon me one last time and a loving gay couple who
billed themselves as the Corsican Brothers let me move into their trailer and became
my two moms. Life was good with Lucien and Mario, until one day they were both arrested
and deported for, according to the U.S. Government, performing a public lewd act on the high wire…
I continued to traveled with the carnival until i reached the age of seventeen, then ran away
from the circus only to join another circus then another and another and another…
and here I am today, on Mother's Day, thinking and missing all my Moms.…
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