Ins and Outs Part 4

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 3 Dr. D. confers in panic with Rex and boys at the Limbo Saloon by now my eyes are ping pong balls the final recommendation is for ritual abandonment Fra Umbilicus answers his page in the monastery wing and servos his motorchair up to my railing intones the curse of the catacombs think of it as original my sin er son how the flat line fooled the experts was on the 6 o'clock perhaps it was the fact that it went vertical tripping alarm buzz circuits from Hell to breakfast like a reeking retching lurching Nietschean Lazarus a scarred and demented Universe gave birth to itself and the combined riotous and cheering populations of BURN WARD 3 and AMPUTATION WARD 2 and NARCOLEPSY WARD 666 cameras pick up deicide in the stairwell a theomachian commotion clangity-whaaang go the oxygen tanks bouncing four flights plopity-smash go the out/intravenous bottles whackety-crack goes his portable Respiropump screechety-eech goes NEURO WARD's $90,000 Lobotoscan cascading sympathetically 8er from Decatur straining against the tube works and their attached impedimenta beneath the basement corridor steam pipes awakening autopsy cadavers with every labored pitch and yaw bursting through the fire exit on the firing squad's day off out onto St. Hilarity's loading dock he turns and waves howdy-ose amigoes to the gathered throngs Musela, Tex, the Santa Guadalupe Mariachis slams Lucille the ambulance's door severing all connections arm tube nose tube mouth tube chest tube piss tube hits the throttle light bar and siren and lets Lucille's squealing wheels burn rubber clear down to the land of rubber plantations until the tank hits empty and memory returns syllables and lost parts of speech the twin t's of utterance two swords and fate the swindler of souls has a blowout at 90 at 5...at 15... the separated twins separate the H-O-R-I-Z-O-N into before and after rhyming less on the outside than on the inside out a vacation follows From "Engine of Didactic Beauty" available on Amazon http://tinyurl.com/nhfk6dr