The Midnight Trailer
Police Department officers were alerted to a swaying trailer in a carpark
behind a pick-up truck, it belonged to the Kings Royal Circus of Texas,
according to officer Duffy Ryan, the wind wasn't enough to make it sway that
much, hence the trailer became the great mystery of the city of Albuquerque,
there was a man sitting in the truck that pulled the trailer, it was 120c and he
was hot and bothered, he had probably forgotten to administer air that night
for the animals, the night inside the trailer that is, outside it was past
midday, officer Ryan told the driver, "that trailer is not made to carry
anything with a heartbeat," inside the midnight trailer they discovered three
Indian elephants and eight Alpacan lamas, one of the elephants was dead,
after dark, groups of police, animal officials, and onlookers stood in the
parking lot and tried to figure out what to do next, as the frightened animals
that were still alive continued to rock the compartment, when an elephant
dies, it feels like a wrecking ball has dropped straight through the heart, as
though this central organ has expanded to adopt the consistency of cloud, it
may have something to do with the absence that is created, there is huge
stinking body to get rid of, like you were told to move your house to the end
of the street, this giant absence aside from the body that is present, I guess
people like to get rid of big corpses as soon as possible, but it is not so easy
with an elephant or a giraffe, pieces of them are rotting on the ground all
across Africa and India, in other countries they rot safely behind bars, or are
bashed with bars to perform, or die out inside the midnight trailers, this
decade is deciding their fate for them, there is sadness within the tiny death,
but when it happens to an elephant, you think that is tremendous, you think
that's it, kneel down and rub your forehead, that is a monumentous sad death,
something monumentous has passed from the earth, or in zoos when an
elephant sways you think, something monumentous has gone psychotic, or
something monumentous has broken through its enclosure and is stamping the
crowds to death in the circus arena, the ringmaster with the whip or the cruel
elephant trainer is the first to go, the elephants eye is as big as your palm,
take a look into your palm, an eye of a captive elephant that big and insane,
is something to steer clear of, it's like the source of an alpine stream has
suddenly turned odd, and that if the water fails at its source, you will go mad
if you drink it, an elephant has suffocated inside the eternal night of a circus
trailer, the valley is hurting, a mountain has been collapsed for no reason. |
