Dead Man's Lever
the instruction manual was explicit:
in the inconvenient event
of even an ordinary death
not to be pulled
merely
in the event of .
concert of relative motion
unidirectional,
iron-encased
even in that less failsafe era
future corpse rally
to defeat the present
one unfinished trip,
latticeworks of contingency
when everything pressed forward
one lever at a time
falls suddenly back