Its shape tells us plainly

time inside is curved

it holds Elvis Presley's body

perfectly preserved



When Kennedy came with Monroe

late in '55

the senator carved their names

by the overdrive

it's an accident of nature

designed by architects

NASA built it from an alloy

they'd stolen from the Czechs



The Beast Box is dreaming

what you believe



The replica at Disneyland

in the big exhibition hall

it's correct to the last nut and bolt

it's nothing like it at all

if a pregnant woman touches it

the child will be shy

and if you glimpse it once

you eventually die



The Beast Box is dreaming

what you believe



In a dream I'm inside

with my kid brother

there's scenes of awful suffering

we're avoiding looking at each other

then he's pointing to the handrail

it's long, of burnished chrome

saying in that stupid voice of his