Intoxicated Pachyderms - A Found Poem by Patty Mooney

Image by cleopatra69 via Flickr Four wild elephants that ran amok
after becoming intoxicated
on bootleg rice beer
in northeastern India’s Meghalaya state
were electrocuted when they brought down
high-voltage power lines during
a drunken rampage.
Forestry officials said
the herd stormed out of the forest
and into villages
after smelling the fermenting brew,
then drank from open casks of beer
in a remote area.
The death toll
among the elephant raiders could have
been higher, but about 20 pachyderms
moved away from the site,
sensing danger
just before the power lines
came crashing down.