Best Kind of Electrocution

Electricity is the kind of thing we most often survive    
unless by some misfortune it stops our heart    
This fact alone reminds me of heroin      
Heroin reminds me of a certain heroine      
     
She liked to play with electrical stimulation      
by firing her neurons with a drug    
that zapped her with strong pleasures      
but only when she was feeling lonely    
     
Just like electricity makes the heart stop    
her heart did stop, or nearly so    
until EMTs managed to revive her    
prompting an apology song    
     
Yet electricity continues to play a vital role    
in society like the unstoppable heroin trade      
athough everyone could use DC current    
and other nations succeeded in eliminating      
dangerous opium trade, only to see invasion      
     
After all is said and done, we can garner lessons      
Electrocution is a thing to be best enjoyed surviving      
Heroin or heroine also is best to be survived      
Yet none of these things will be fashionably safe... ever
 
 
#BillyCollins