Chemical creatures,
Bio features
Learned to laugh,
Learned to be dizzy.
Ash and water
Knows it’s breathing.
Maybe knows it knows it
Only this once.
Womb and semen
Woke up dreamin’
Is mind a verb
Done by matter?
Sun and moon
Have heard the living.
Life’s a trip
No one survives.
Slate-grey ocean,
Churning motion.
Staring at the home
That bore us.
Compassion needed
‘Cause life’s a virus:
Am I scared
Or am I in love?
Blind collision,
Hourglass vision.
Listen to the car door
Scraping on the concrete.
Seeking joy
Before the curtain:
Universal symptom.

I can’t find the words for this question
That’s wearing on me.
Dunno if we can even have an answer to
“How do we be?”

Cinders in the furnace glow
Feeding crying ex nihlo.
The stars fell into the sea.
Waking up, his pulse is gone,
Does the story carry on?
Will these bones still be me?
Cinders in the furnace glow,
Feeding, crying ex nihlo.
Diamonds, filth, and glee.
Blooming in the cold, wet ground.
Stomach turning round and round.
How do we be?

All perspective
Born subjective.
Accidents
Might build the cities.
Gods and angels
From the mirrors.
Who would ever
Ask to be born?
Smokestack plume,
FM bloom.
Burning through the 21st cent’ry.
Young eye glare
Reading history
Will be history—
No escape.
Ozone prism,
Spectral schism:
Gems in the making
Swimming in a heat bath.
Opal stain
To milk and blood.
Reason alone
Withers and dies.
Ending is nearing
Keep on cheering.
Tangent ‘tween
Infinity and zero
Unified
‘pataphysics
Joyful brief and foolish!

Dread blessed
Cathedral bells chiming
Above the marquee.
I doubt we’ll ever
Answer the question
“How do we be?”

Cinders in the furnace glow
Feeding crying ex nihlo.
The stars fell into the sea.
Waking up, his pulse is gone,
Does the story carry on?
Will these bones still be me?
Cinders in the furnace glow,
Feeding, crying ex nihlo.
Diamonds, filth, and glee.
Blooming in the cold, wet ground.
Stomach turning round and round.
How do we be?