don't take me up into that ferris wheel cage over the water because all I will think of is falling and landing in the water in the cage and drowning and 
a carnival is no place for Death
although She loves to eat the corn dogs, pick at the cotton candy, luck out at the cardboard shooter, win a stuffed animal
Death takes no breaks
Her eyes are always in the crowd
Her hands are always busy
She rides the Ferris wheel and takes in the world with one bubblegum swallow

[Featured Image: Roue de Paris. Public domain]