Palms Read

As often as always evolution is crawling from the sea, Alive with urgency like suicide, like suicide, Convinced the grass is greener on dry earth; The march of serrated utterance like a soft cough Muffled murmur sneaking through the lecture hall. The crawl across the island, the sound of waves; Embodied water sprouting legs as loud as gallop,... All the young people who took a leap without faith into a riverbed That drowns about as much as it saves. ...Cuffing down on ground against the cries of gravity. Belly-up, half buried in the sand. Extend a hand to the smallness of death. Understand that only dying is this colossal Creation shedding skin to find a perfect equilibrium like fossils. All the young people who took a leap of no faith... All the young cowards acting out... All the young cowards acting out for the brave forever hurled Into the waters of their indifferent graves. For a million years raise your glass We will never answer where we came from... For a million years raise your glass in cheers We will never answer where we came from only how we got... For a million years raise your glass We will never answer where we came from... For a million years raise your glass ...only how we got here. (Two minutes, and the lads are in for a surprise)