1.
fall succeeds summer
new elephants are growing
fast; no room for more
2.
execution day
Killer Elephant Meets Death
media on-hand
3.
grey, damp, morning murk
the beast in its harness sweats
before the current.
4.
buzzing, clouds of smoke
the pachyderm teeters, then
rolls on its old back.
5.
fairground lumber piled
her docile corpse fidgets, her
limbs splayed like lumber
6.
quiet labourmen
three trampled trainers avenged!
camera’s passive whirr.
7.
lights flick against sky
Topsy’s turbulence is done
men she killed stay dead
8.
Luna Park is nigh
Coney Island spectacles
no longer lethal
Where to find Electrocuting An Elephant:
Electrocuting An Elephant is among the many brief, 19th and early-20th century films found on Disc One of Kino International’s four-disc set, Edison: The Invention of the Movies. The film is about 90 seconds long.
Poor Topsy even has her own Wikipedia entry.
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