Circus Logic (Re-Post)

A Chinaman, who, new in town was working as a circus clown. One day he saw on the trapeze a muscled woman named Louise. To show her that he was no coward he called his colleague, (name was Howard) and told him that he'd climb the rope that courage would bestow some hope. And so he climbed until he stood next to Louise. He said he would now be an artist of the air to which she answered 'I don't care, you are an ugly little clown so get your boring body down! ' As you can guess, her words had shattered all his brave thoughts, the hope that mattered and in the blink of a clown's eye he whispered quickly his good bye. Jumped off the swing headfirst and fell into the cage of Annabelle. This creature was, please do not laugh, a rather tall and pink Giraffe. He wrapped his arms around her neck and slid, while thinking 'what the heck? ' down to the animal's soft skin, then landed with a silly grin inside the hamper stuffed with hay. To his surprise he was okay. Meanwhile, Louise (who couldn't care) , had craned her neck, begun to stare, she lost her balance then and dropped until she was, quite roughly, stopped by Ben, the Hippo's giant jaws. There first was silence, then a pause as all the folks expected worse and someone yelled a heartfelt curse. The Hippo, having left adventures back in the jungle, now wore dentures. He would have liked to eat Louise but, with arthritis in his knees and utterly disgusting bunions he now preferred sautéed green onions. And, being gentle at his age he bowed toward the silent stage and set Louise down on the ground right in the soft and steaming mound of Hippo droppings where she stayed her face a mess, her mind dismayed. The clown had learned a lesson here: Rejected love defeats your fear but choose, before your very end giraffe or hippo as your friend.