"The noblest art is that of making others happy."

Rating: 7/10 (1 January 2018)

The Greatest Showman (2017)
Barnum was a fraud,
But this film sugar coats that.
Where were fact checkers?
"Sucker born every minute"?
This was no biography.
Call me a sucker,
Loved Barnums and Oddities.
Entertained throughout.
Clever choreography,
Catchy musical numbers.
(Somonka is a form of poetry that is essentially two tanka poems, the second stanza a response to the first. Each stanza follows a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable pattern. Traditionally, each is a love letter. This form usually demands two authors, but it is possible to have a poet take on two personas. My somonka will be a love/hate letter to a film?)
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