The Incredible Shrinking Flea
Welcome, everybody, I want you all to gather ’round,
And witness the freak of nature that by fortune I have found
It’s not every day that we come across one of these,
The youngest of a family of the incredible shrinking fleas.
I hope your vision’s good, because if not you’ll miss a treat.
You’ll never run into something like this just walking down the street.
The species I have gathered is the only one domesticated,
And I promise before his lifespan’s up, he will be liberated.
So set your focus on this cushion where this specimen resides
Because any second now he’ll disappear before your eyes.
He’ll muster all his power to do what it was born to do,
And he will diminish in size right here before all of you.
What’s this? You cannot see him? Well, I guess he jumped the gun.
It’s hard to know how it reacts. In captivity there is but one.
When it’s hungry it will reappear, but Lord knows when that will be!
But he’ll be back I promise, this marvelous little flea.
Now wait there. Where are you going? This is a spectacle to behold!
Give this flea but a second, for a trick worth the price of gold.
Return your money? Now good people, I promise I’m no cheat.
I’d never take your money by replacing reality with deceipt.
Yes, I know that fleas are really small, and really hard to see,
Which makes this trick the more impressive, surely woth the fee.
So turn your heads to where the spotlight on this pillow shines.
I think he’s back, this special flea, to produce a feat so fine.
Now, hey there? Where ya goin’? Which patron brought his mutt?
That canine’s leaving with my fortune hiding somewhere on its butt.
When I said my flea would disappear, this is not what I had meant.
Now, I don’t know what I will do to pay my monthly rent!!
Everybody’s gone now, so pooch come back inside.
I told you that this trick would work, we took everyone for a ride.
We’ll go from town to town now. We’ll make a killing you will see.
With my homemade little circus and “The Incredible Shrinking Flea”.