The Late Nino Quincampoix

Nino is late

His watch is probably stopped

And if his watch has stopped

He had to get it fixed

Fixed at the shop

That sits across the tracks

The same high voltage tracks of Europe's fastest train

Lost in thought

Nino's half way across the railway tracks

The instant the train impacts

And current flows through Nino's arteries

Which stops his heart

While train cars tear his limbs apart

And Nino survives

They even find his watch

Placed back upon his wrist, by a nurse named Nora

She gets him to walk

She bathes him with a sponge

She helps him to his knee when he proposes

Who has time for a guy like that

For a guy who doesn't know

How to tell time

How to tell time

How to tell

How!