ENOS
THEY NAMED A FETA CHEESE AFTER HIM
I’m looking down on the world from the top of creation
the man on the corner growled One yellow shoe one grey
Thinning hair caked on mud here & there standing too
close to me Catapulted to thoughts of Enos 1st chimp to
circle Earth Nov. 29 1961
Looking down on the world little chimp-god Tortured by
NASA with electrodes on feet shocked repeatedly lever
malfunctioned mid-flight Mission deemed a success It was
Enos who paved the way for John Glenn! (Globe & Mail)
The scientist who devised said torture chamber was obsessed
with the poet Champcenetz who named the Guillotine and
later fell prey to the razor himself It is a little known fact that
our scientist died while receiving electro-shock therapy
Enos was eventually retired and lived out his days in a Chimp-Spa
funded by Bob Barker Life is full of such serendipity All the circles
are connected leading you to the centre which is empty Enos finally
chewed through the barbed wire of his enclosure sending Bob into a
massive depression
We live in an epoch where moats are erected around solitude
and the cost of forgiveness has skyrocketed In Toronto recently
many millions of dollars were spent on locking dolphins sharks &
a whale behind a glass enclosure underneath our business district
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Winter 2013
