11-06-2022, 08:58 PM
Somewhere in Hell
there must be a circle for the overrated
where a barefooted Thomas Edison
has to do his experiments
all by himself, testing 6,000 types of filaments
for his lightbulb without the aid
of his army of forgotten employees at Menlo Park,
and each time one of them fails,
Topsy, the electrocuted elephant,
steps on his toes, and all this happens
in front of an carnival audience
of all the stray animals he murdered
before it was Topsy’s turn.
And there’s no bamboo in Hell,
so the experiments never end.
there must be a circle for the overrated
where a barefooted Thomas Edison
has to do his experiments
all by himself, testing 6,000 types of filaments
for his lightbulb without the aid
of his army of forgotten employees at Menlo Park,
and each time one of them fails,
Topsy, the electrocuted elephant,
steps on his toes, and all this happens
in front of an carnival audience
of all the stray animals he murdered
before it was Topsy’s turn.
And there’s no bamboo in Hell,
so the experiments never end.