Carcass as Mitigation - Emergency Measures

Poor Pachyderm court ordered put down

For stomping to death several handlers

You could say her end was permitted

Edison the elephant executioner

Laced his victim’s last meal

With cyanide

To insure expediency

The electrocution

Merely

A warning against the dangers

Of alternate current

Tesla

I’m sure fantasied

About Edison’s

Demise

Occurring in much the same manner

Nicola never forgave Alva

The man owed him money

Menlo was an evil wizard

You owe me nothing

Have nothing I want

Yet I find it impossible

To pass your idiocy by

Without considering cyanide

I would not

However

Electrocute you

Snow and Ice infused with Sand

The gravity of the moment

First look at your reflection

How

Like a Beagle’s your eyes

Have become

You follow your nose

When you look for your keys

Grope for your trousers

This dream lies in the shadows

Waiting for the sun

Be there to meet it

Wait

Move through the morning

On bare feet and tiptoes

Take a walk to the water

Make sure that you listen

Whirls the sand and snow

Hellion of heavy weather

How

Like an enraged demon the ocean’s become

Know this

Keep everything covered

When you walk in a nor’ Easter

Lest some flying cosmic debris

Snatch off your hat

A real nightmare

At first light take stock of the damage

Once the wind subsides

Marvel at the quiet

Pick up the pieces

Snow Day 1/3/14

2013

People Will Talk

People Will Talk

The play write bemoans

Through his character’s

Well stuffed mouth

How much better

Butter was

When we was young

Uses an academic

Peeling a knockwurst

Poking around for

More cabbage in the pot

To make his point

Wonder how he’d feel

About x-mas dinner

Made by Wal-Mart

Dream Vacation

Dream Vacation

Living as we do

Riding wide eyed and wooly

The running boards of this

Threadbare science platform

We attempt to repair the tear

In our time continuum

With bubble gum and bailing wire

Hope it holds

The time we’re away

Never looking back to witness

What might be

Exploding in our rear view mirror

There comes a time

When you just can’t worry

Another moment

Without losing your mind

McDonough

You should know we thought of you

Every time we checked the maps

Bought at that Oklahoma

Reservation gas station

Last year on vacation

The attendant told us

We might buy the book and never

Own the contents

He was trying way too hard to

Say something witchy

I asked him
if he'd mind 
if I stole the line

This trip has taken on the fragility

Of crystal

Crisscrossed by power lines  

Looking for a Qwik Trip

We need more coffee

Hell has fire but lacks illumination

And

Up ahead stands a bindle stiff

Thumb in the wind

Ecstatic magician or

Coyote vagina

Not known - Unknowable

We stop to ask directions 

Offer her a ride beyond

Len on Geno TV 2005

http://genotv.com/nantucket/videos/len-germinara-05/

Above is a link to an interview I had with Geno Geng back in 2005.