we have in the dirt and in the sky
uncovered creatures crawling with flies
as as the roof falls to the floor
we watch the earth grow rich with poor
from the north
sent to the south
a hot spoon for
your cold mouth
in my fist an open palm
that is excited by your calm
in my eyes and in my ears
is the brave way that I feel fear
from the future comes the past
before the first after the last
the seeming slow fleets by so fast
for love for one becomes another
a baby grows to be a mother
and because the truth will set me free
I beg you please to lie to me
confined by walls and open space
we foot the bill just to save face
we succeed in sleeping through the race
and fail to catch what we don’t chase
and all these things and so much more
that walk right out through splintered doors
they prove the earth is as it seems
a solid rock that shatters dreams
and everybody gets a slice
a a broken piece of paradise