One year after the London 2012 Olympics, the gates to the east London site have reopened to reveal the new Queen Elizabeth Park, the first tangible piece of the two-week sporting circus' promised legacy.
While the ostentatious circus peanut promises to "Make America Great Again" and the retirement home Mr. Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man promises voters "A Future to Believe In," both of their campaigns are rooted in misguided economic populism, in regards to free trade.
The circus, however, promises to return to town.
One undated circus poster promises to present "the Greatest Natural National Curiosity of the World".
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All children in costume are admitted free at the Bronx and Queens Zoos.20101028 Cirque Le Masque: 'Carnivale' (Sunday) It's not Cirque du Soleil, but it is a European circus, and it promises plenty of agility and aerial finesse.
"Next week, the lions and tigers will arrive from Egypt," one of the circus promoters, Ghassan Taha Mohammed, promised in September.
Flik is congratulated as a hero and the ants bid a fond farewell to the circus troupe, who promise to return the following year.
When we were little circus performers, all the promises of life lay before us, and we knew could be anything, and even more important, we could be everything.
They promised a circus, and a circus they got.
