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.