28 Oct 2005, 3:31am
Writing
by David


Evacuation: Math

No tensile strength. No. Let’s face it:

the poem at the beginning of the book

was less endearing than the door

at the end. Knock-knock. So something

got out. It was painful, that fall,

precipitated by a turn into the barn.

While leaves floored down. An adventure,

mind. The elk moon sleek and shiny.

The wonderful moon sleek and shiny.

What else can we say? It was suggested

that they lacked instinct, but they didn’t.

They only lacked a helicopter.

O towering inferno, O difficult heart

Chief Fire Chief Michael O’Hallorhan.

The Aspect: Ratio is what it’s about.

A battle–strong but wizened lab rats

overcome an army of weak beetles,

and a boogie-hostage who Freaks Out

sobbing sobbing sobbing just because

it’s her day off. Steve isn’t in this

film; yesterday he was. So she’s

doing the laundry. It’s on the same

channel that that old treason-play was–

The Great Escape, Papillon, I forget.

But touching. So she puts it in her

lesson-plan. She tells her mother, This

had something to do with triangulation.

Something about the nerves.