Cirque du Beaux Art I

The University of Montana Artist Collective threw a ball on Saturday night, complete with a marshmallow-peep show and fortune teller. Three bands took turns sounding off in the corner as costumed art students and the curious explored the carnivalesque.  Here is one of three slices of the night.

	By strange magic, the sodium lights exhale when she smokes.
	The entrance was guarded.
	A magician's apprentice brews an elixir for facial hair.  Someday, young mage.
	There were hoop dreams.
	Sure.  Just try to steal a kiss.  Don't mind the nearby heap of boys and girls with hurt egos and hoop-shaped bruises on their bellies.
	Miss Penny Lucre wires Bern.