Meat Piano
Mark Walters

Crank the industrial clouds.
Time for the show. The routine
you've been perfecting for years.
It involves many things: a prepared
piano, a bag of lamb. I'm in charge
of boiling water for the finale.
Reindeer are harnessed, we're trucking
in sculpture from Kansas City, explaining
protocol on just what the helicopters
are allowed to do. Five minutes
to showtime. Here comes the chipped
beef.