The rollercoaster’s
rolling full throttle,
has a new booster rocket
not subject yet
to safety experiment,
riders thrown every few
minutes, smashed
to ground, publicists
about to stop digging
hands into steaming
lampreys served
with fresh lime juice
to wonder perhaps
that this rate
of civilians hurled
to earth must not agree
quite
with amusement
park patterns
in the fabled
West
where children
go for rides
not to die.
February 5, 2008