Splosh Me! The Boston Molasses Disaster!

"Yes, I know, lovely Hayley, have some warm treacle too
Fill your panties with edible muck."
'Father William'
by Gooey Carroll

And there it stood
on its concrete base
the tank
fifty-eight-feet of industry
plates of curved carbon steel
bulging with the product
black-strap molasses
over two million gallons
imported from Cuba
Puerto Rico
The West Indies
to sweeten the rum
to sweeten the beans...
baked in Boston
of course
of course

It was unseasonably warm
in Boston Massachusetts
40 degrees
on the 15th of January
in the year 1919
The laborers of The Purity Distilling Company
sat
on the city wharf
in their short sleeves
by the tank
by the waterfront
eating their five cents
Clark Bars and Goo Goo Clusters

January
the door
of new historical ages
of the first blood of Christ
of the Holy Prepuce swathed
preserved in oil of nard
and placed in a box of alabaster
for the sins of you and yours
for the redemption of man

Fifteen is a triangular number
and a hexagonal number
a pentatope number
the 4th Bell number
It is a composite number
the number of supersingular primes
and miraculous powers








The 15th of January is the date of heroic inevitability
The birth date of
Martin Luther King
Gene Krupa
Harry Hay
Captain 'Don Glen Van Vliet' Beefheart
Charo: María Rosario
Pilar Martínez Molina
Moquiere de les Esperades
Santa Ana Romanguera
y de la Najosa Rasten
and Saint Flit
It is also the date of the deaths of
Brad Renfro
Les Baxter
Rosa Luxemburg
and Junior Wells

Janus Ianuarius with his two faces
looking forward and backward

It happened
January 15th
1919
About and around
12:30
or 12:45...
depending on ones perspective...
On the wharf
of Bostons waterfront
amongst the apartments of Italian
immigrants

SPLOSH
The tank burst!
Bullet machine pop
Steel shrapnel whizzing
around
One could lose two eyes in
the semi-sweet sticky spurt
the brown viscous gush
the molasses tidal wave
25 feet high
60 feet wide
35 miles an hour
The creeping barrage of 20th century
seeping ever forward
in metallic farts
of utility

Of course
of course
the laborers were the first hit
then the poultry slaughterhouse
the horses feeding at the firestation
the children heading for lunch
the homes of the immigrants
the Italian anarchists
The earth moved under them...
it was like being licked by a hundred tongues of syrup
toes curled up to squeeze the grunge around
The warm violent squish across the soles
of their bare naked feet

A tidal surge of goo
rats
chickens and children
screamed down Commercial Street
with no clear path or direction
it retracted and retreated
pulling at skin and clothing
Bodies restricted by the cut
of the dripping material
Sticky filthy clothing
Glazed shirt buttons tight across their chest
Candied trousers squeezing their genitals

Wet socks

soggy potatoes

piss stained union suits

metal scraps and beer barrels

Little Martin Clougherty rode

the surge of debris and ooze

his bed frame a raft

He rode pass

the elevated rail road tracks

devastated

He rode pass

the confectionery hands grasping

for air

He rode pass

the horses

people

and dogs

dying like fruits on flypaper

He rode

right into fireboat 31

tumbling into the mass

syrup filling his mouth

lungs

ears

eyes

seeping into his waist band

clinging to his pajamas

warm stodgy filling coating his balls

dripping thighs and growing puddles

A report from 'The Boston Post' read

"Molasses, waist deep, covered the street and swirled and bubbled under the wreckage.

Here and there struggled a form

whether it was animal or human being was impossible to tell.

Only an upheaval,

a thrashing about

in a sticky mass..."

Even today

after a century of industrial pollution

When your down at Boston harbor

on a hot summer night

and you jump out the car

Because the older gentleman your with

just ejaculated over your brand new Brian Eno t-shirt

The one just after Roxy

about the time of 'Here Come the Warm Jets'

when he was androgynous

The Boston air hits your nose

sickly pungent and semi-sweet

just like an alcohol shit.

-Outtakes-

 

 

Oil-retention enemas can be helpful in patients who are impacted, meaning stool is so large and hard that it is obstructing the colon. An example of an oil-retention enema is a milk-and-molasses enema. Always consult with your health care provider before administering an enema at home.

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Ingredients:

    * 8 oz. warm water
    * 3 oz. powdered milk
    * 4.5 oz. molasses

Preparation:
1. Put water and powdered milk in a plastic jar. Close the jar and shake until fully mixed.

2. Add the molasses and shake the jar again until the mixture appears to have an even color throughout.

3. Pour the mixture into an enema bag. Gently insert the enema tubing into the rectum about 12 inches. Do not force the tube and stop if you meet any resistance. Hold the bag high until all the liquid has been drained into the rectum.

4. Repeat every six hours until good results are achieved.
Milk and Molasses Enema