Ins and Outs Part 2

Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts. Part 2 act three in the third act delirious the laws of physics etc. he coughs his lungs out in wheezing jets internal combustion is internal combustion his bed of wheels begins to roll first one wheel then the others cough cough cough his wheels roll the length of NEURO WARD 4's corridor to the NEURO elevator and its NEURO music by now familiar to you as that song in the head cough cough cough 3 2 1 doors open out upon the concrete parking lot out to Lucille the Oldsmobile they recognize one another why no one knows this is an orphan's tale composed with the licensed use of Orphan Guild secrets raised on the back seat suckled by giant oranges weaned on foot long hot dogs at the nation's roadside Musella my injection! act four in the 4th phantom of the opera the tank hits empty his lungs flat and black as a piece of big rig recap in desperation piles bricks on seat heaves bricks back onto concrete salutes au revoir to the mirror's horizon and rolls onward propelled by what is equal what is opposite according to St. Newton the law of the motor what goes in must come out seriously Lucille rolls upon the concrete gridway steering herself autonomously everything left to chance we now know any nightmare propelled by what is equal and opposite will roll through the divider and off the bed-road Musella vacuums up the glass and sorts out the tubing our fugitive lays low by his radio signal up full awaiting the footsteps and stethoscope of Tex Amphora the archaeologist cowboy surgeon took my case in a bar stool wager betting on flesh made perfect the fool the angel 5 minute intermission they taught me how to act onstage I mean in stages strangers said I'd grow out of it friends said I'm gonna die from it there comes a time in a youth's youth when he discovers that the machinery on the interstate can play the sound of skidding wheels on a Steinway so a much needed musical interlude then acto sexto From "Engine of Didactic Beauty" available on Amazon http://tinyurl.com/nhfk6dr Artist Portfolio: http://walteralter.site11.com/