How Your Home Howls

How did you howl today?

Or did you give it away?

Stifling the greatest thing
you'd ever say

How do you hold on tight

when the rumbling comes?

Do you fall to the ground

or try to dance along?

And the rivers start to rise

and the sidewalks come alive

Just as the baby crowns

home becomes your holy ground.

If I played it back
could you identify the sound?

Shh.

What was that?

Did you hear that?

Have you heard it before?

How your home howls

How your home howls

How your home ~

How long were you without?

I think I heard you shout

But something near
was suddenly so weird

the signs all turned around

You listened real close

What surprised you the most?

What sudden, what slow?

You said some sexy ways
your senses awoke.

Well no,
I never learned the words

But I heard the alarm
begin with the birds

It's starting down the street

the ground beneath your feet

Reminds me of the time
my rhythm caught

my heart began to beat.

Shh.

What was that?

Did you hear that?

Have you heard it before?

How your home howls

How your home howls

How your home ~

The cacophony is softening

His incessant insistence is shit

Yip yip

Howooo

Arf arf

Bloop bloop

You Think We’re Fucked?

knowing what you know of storms

the size of hemispheres

entire continents on fire

of right here ruin wrought from

deluge or dry-outs or die-offs

do you know who'll be included?

why don't u believe we're fucked?

will you ever believe we're fucked?

what systems are
so stable they will save us?

what ways are you
imagining endure?

knowing what you
knew once of money

death

i forget what else

oh yeah how could i forget my

supplies of tortured creatures

slaughtered shipped and salted

for my sandwiches

why don't you believe we're fucked?

will you ever believe we're fucked?

then we stopped wanting kids

we never remembered
the rest of them

we know what you did

already surrendering friends

(i realize) we're very very very very very very very very close
we're very very very very very very very very close
we're really really really really very very very very close

but it doesn't matter what I think, what do you think?

fucked? not fucked? fucked?

Worker Bee

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.

Too Little Too Late

What happens if you don't

reach for everything!

You need it now.

What happens if you

stop the flow

put it down and let it go.

No! I can't live without you.

How would I even begin?

Friends are what keeps
cruelty down

It's done, I just can't hold it in

What we need is too late,
late late late

wait are you sure it's too late,
late late late

mm-hmm, what you need
is too little too late, late late late

who told you you were too late,
late late late

who are you to tell me no?

I am an American Man

I will never sacrifice

I will always take a stand

since every drop of it is mine

and every part of you we'll find

and every part of there
we'll mine too

every particle combine

and every paradox
unwind unwind unwind

what we need is too late,
late late late

wait are you sure
it's too late, late late late

mm-hmm, what you need, that’s
too little too late, late late late

who told you you were too late,
late late late

what do you hafta hafta
hafta hafta have

what do you hafta hafta
hafta hafta have

famine's banquet

famine's banquet

how do you keep going on?

once you know our goose is cooked

oh you're friendly with the goose

you both choose how the meal looks

the kitchens fill with
smells and tastes

none of us will catch, ever again

invited to the final feast

stand in line hold out your hand

what we need is too late,
late late late

wait are you sure it's too late,
late late late

uh-huh, what you need

that’s too little too late,
late late late

who told you you were too late?
late late late

Until

I expect it all to go today

something big is finally giving way

do the birds portend a quake

what do they intend to take

and could this be the decisive storm

my last hours in this itchy uniform

so untiiiil

the shit gets real

i will push whatever
button lets me feeel

so untiiiil

the shit gets real

i will push whatever
button lets me feeel

Yo your mask looks
hecka apocalyptochic. 

Disaster porn for
compassion fatigue.

too much content causes
root for ruin

but can't help wonder, how you doin?

bypass by dread to distort the truth

as all my fears are concurrently faced by you

so untiiiil

the shit gets real

i will push whatever
button lets me feeel

so untiiiil

the shit gets real

i will push whatever
button lets me feeel

just because I put it off
a little longer

doesn't mean i deserve to escape

seeing what goes down
around this town

it'll all come back to
bite me in the face

purge on the verge

blink on the brink

fuss on the cusp

the until thrills

hey you wanna play pretend?

fantasize only violent ends

follow the evacuation route

i'll share my water

please don't shoot

and here's some help

to protect the source

preserve it for our future thirst

so until

the shit gets real

i will push whatever
button lets me feel

Auntie's Ranch
(Not Yet Set on Fire)

I'm a fire

I'm a fire

I'm a fire

I was born as a crackel
inside your sun

then I caused all the rumbles beneath the ground

I was there as a hunger
inside your core

when I get out in air
I let out a roar

I'm a fire

I'm a fire

your murmurations
mesmerize my dreams

you’re encroaching
the edges of my being

your approach paralyzes
all sense of time

but I am not yet yours,
not yet set on f~

You’re a fire

You’re a fire

I first smelled the smoke
at home at the ranch

the clouds on the maps
showed me where it advanced

gather the horses

check on the neighbors

where are the photos,
the important papers?

I can feel the heat

and the air is so thick

the thought of it
ending this way
makes me so sick

if this is our last chance
before we're aflame

I want you to know

I'd do it again

I'm a fire

I'm a f~

What Hour? Ours!

tribes! our human vine’s overripe

exxxcrement flowing
thru a rusty pipe

these men still want to fight

already yeasts ferment the ground

for every animal managing
at the edge of our villages

there are so many vanishing

without a sound

what season is it?

it switches

what hour?

ours!

oil sputters
blood in gutters
owl flutters

shhh. wait i mean scream!

shut shut SHUT IT DOWN

you're eating that?

that was the final fish

ever pulled from a dying sea

did you witness that?

that was the dying star

where you were squished against me

your region was stolen

and now your aquifer is burning

who’ll let you breathe?

uncage young age refugees

fruit fugitive futures

blossom impossible accomplices

viral count and/or bacteria?

viral count and/or bacteria?

viral count and/or bacteria?

i hear it's in your area!

shut shut shut SHUT IT DOWN

fleshy thresholds

my fascia fears these fascists

probably already found us

what'd dude bro do now? 

pass me my poison portal please

he'd sooner obliterate this place

than hand over these keys

that was a close one

don't come any closer son

i gotta monitor, get on it,

evade events

the odds of dodging toxins

back to my urgency

these urgent sea urchins
need to feed

so i erased your agency

don't destroy my destiny!

get away from me!

shut, shut, shut, SHUT IT DOWN

Your Arms are Horizons

Whenever we wheel
our rope bridges in

I remember set sail ~ SET SAIL

and lost origins

peering over the edge

the last end of the road

and then losing my mind

and then crafting a boat

Why did we wait?

We didn't know if we could bear it

Why did we wait?

We barely even got to share it

The ceaseless buzz
of machines grows silent

a billion bugs
on your screens will bite you

keep the windows closed,
where nothing will find you

you've lost all your weapons

your heart starts to guide you

Why did we wait?

We didn't know if we could bear it

Why did we wait?

We barely even got to share it

Whenever we dream

of going back home

the light is just so

the door is a bone

your spine is the chimney

where your ancestors hush

your arms are horizons

that your children will push

why did we wait?

Sit

Do you want to sit where I sit?

Do you want to sit where I sit?

No I don’t want to sit where you sit.

I’m happy where I am.

Where you sit, that’s the opposite

of this place that I have.

Ok, maybe we share some likes

but that doesn’t mean
you’re like me

because I have made
this place the best!

And you are far behind me!

And it hurts me
to see such violence

every time I look your way.

But that’s what happens when ~ what?

Something’s happening where I am.

No I don’t want to sit where you ~ what?

I ~ hold on, where I am??

Things are changing drastically…

I’m not sure if I….AHHHHH!

AHHHHHHHH!

Have you ever ~ oh, you have?

How’d that go?

Oh, I see.

Any chance you have a couch?

I can’t stay where I am.

Now I want to sit where you sit.

I’ve lost all that I am.

Hope you’re cool with a few of us.

I’m sure we’ll fit, if we cram!

Do you want to sit?

Where the Earth Comes
Out Of

Heart

Throat

Womb

That’s where the
Earth comes out of, OH!

Roots

Branches

Fruit

That’s where the
Earth comes out of, OH!

Bubbles

Pulses

Splashes

Thats where the
Earth comes out of, OH!

Weather

Feathers

Pleasure

That’s where the
Earth comes out of, OH!

Fashion Industry

Rashes You Can See

Ashes in the Sea?

That’s where the
Earth comes out of, OH!

Phones

Foam

The Unknown

That’s where the FUCKING EARTH COMES OUT OF, OH!

It also comes out of my butt.

There Goes the Dam

there goes the dam
now all the spots are flooded

there goes the plan
now all the lights go out

give me your hand

but who can lead us from the city?

asking the land
when we are lost
in doubt, in doubt

go to the ground
she greets us

go to the ground
she repeats this

go to the ground
she teaches

but they never let
their fingers rest

The rivers have stilled

I yielded hopeless harvests

the forests are hostile

the neighbor’s ill

I shouldn't have killed

a final chance to reach you

decolonized dances

we keep reteaching touch,
just touch

go to the ground
she greets us

go to the ground
she repeats this

go to the ground
she tried to teach us

but they never let
their fingers rest

future of shame
regretting all we wasted

surviving the blame
and i will give this up

your eyes will adjust
so will your other senses

uncertain but trust
I go around with friends,
with friends

Come Through

bless us all bless us all arrival

bless us all bless us all survival

bless us all bless us all arrivals

bless us all bless us all survivors

How many times

will you

come through?

Come through

the worst

storm?


How many times

will you

get used

get used

to another new norm?

could I learn?

Who held the light?

Oh, they held you tight?

And they fed you, right?

Forgave your fights?

But you left the nest, oh ~

and you did your best, ohh

but you failed the test, oh!

Can you remember the rest?

Like when your memories melted

so long ago but AH you still felt it

I recognize our
allies’ rise was surprising

scrolling stop

just enjoy joining the void

in a void dance

in a void dance

in a void dance

in a void dance

how bout now?

oh when is the right time
for this shit to end?

how bout now?

i thought it was over,
here we go again

how bout now?

oh when is the right time
for this shit to end?

how bout now?

I thought it was over,
here we go again

how bout now?

oh when is the ripe time?

oh when is the ripe time?

oh when is the ripe time
our fruit can be free?

i'll plant one more tree

but not for me

bless us all bless us all