I will drive to Paterson

To The Falls

Black Bavarian Motor Works 

Park

Birth myself through the rip in the chain

Beyond the music oxen dumpster

Hopscotch my over scrub glass shardUsed sheaths

My head noise out wailing the smashing compounds

Sam Patch went on a historic run

Five falls in as many days and each one carnival

Part horse race part execution

Pawtucket Paterson Niagara Rochester

No shot out of the cannon T Barnum convections here

Ia true spectacle of Newtonian cataclysm 

A straight plunge125 feet into the frigid Passaic

He's a mill boy turned working man's champion

Are you from Paris?

Are you a sailor?

How many women?

No family no past all moment

He first hears water a seven  

Feeding raw cotton from the mill floor feeding cotton with the other children

Into the carding machine with revolving wire teeth picking lint and tying knots

Above machinery din and falling water

Mulls spinning and falls jumping among

Pawtucket boys all jump the same

Feet first 

Breathing 

Falling

Staying under

Then shooting triumphant up to the surface

Friday November 13 come see Sam Patch's highest jump yet

The crowd was in place at one o'clock

They talk and shivered in the November chill

Men passed hats throughout the crowd collecting coins

Sam tried to relax sipping brandy from the bottle

Took off his overcoat 

Climbed up to the rock protrusion

Sam lurched on the high high rock

And starred at the multitudes and mumbled

The leap

At first graceful 

Ended flailing 

Smacking 

Body unfound til Spring

Oh Spring Sam Patch

My heart explodes Sam Patch

Will you marry me Sam Patch?

Sam Patch

I have to back to work

Paterson

The Pasiac Falls

Grand beautiful sublime 

almost horrific and terrible

I am for Sam Patch 

I'm for Sam Patch

I am for Sam Patch