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Could we benefit from
manifestations
nations of crustaceans
fully functional brain stems and plant stems
and all the rations for cash stamps,
hand implants
the poverty stricken abundance further
plunders our government hummers
and plots a thunderous rumble
inside the humblest bungalow
you know, I was concocting an option
for verifying your gumption
all the ravenous, luscious, incredibly scrumpdidlyumptious
i try to trip myself up, but then the planet erupts
all the monkeys conspire until the thumb becomes wireless
i comfort the room and conduct the flow
because the lava will come and it will burn thru your floor
and all the loyal soldiers who've been doubtin me
fuck the credit, i don't sweat it, I'm a worker bee
well ok, we'll hold it down till we rise or drown
wait there's only up or down we can't go
round and round, round and round
well ok, we'll hold it down till we sink or we drown
which is the same thing
from town to town and all around
last time i checked it had stabilized
at the edge of my neighborhood
but it's hard to say whether it will change
or grow bigger still
and the reason i ask is
for your grandchildren's past
because your silence will not save you
when we're sinking this fast
i try to share what I can but my approval is tacit
empathetic economics when the sunset's an asset?
well every sunset's a classic, all the colors are plastic,
don't believe me just ask it
well ok, we'll hold it down till we rise or drown
wait there's only up or down we can't go
round and round, round and round and round
well ok, we'll hold it down till we sink or we drown
which is the same thing
from town to town and all around
still reassured by absurdity, hilarious farce
offering alms for the maelstrom
never facing the force of the storm
counting the lost, externalizing the costs
forgetting all the massacres
all the scars we criss-crossed
why did you paint your face like that?
the cameras can't tell who you are
with your face that bizarre?
trap their tear gas with a traffic cone then douse it
be trust when you most doubt it
be springs for when the drought hits
in this trembling interim,
a chthonic fox tracks a lizard vixen
mixing serum for the venom,
global algal blooms look like the view from Mu,
while the lichen live lives like lightening,
so only solastalgia's soils grow glossolalial turmoil
blooming eight billion breaths
wondering how much must change?
even more than eight billion breaths
wondering how much must change?
and it's okay, we'll hold it down, till we learn how
we just refound our shared ground in the sounds
even though we're all still spiraling
around and around and around
if earth bound, free forever or found.
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