We were almost killed on the Freeway
My Father slammed on his breaks
I heard my Mother gasp
and brace herself

I was almost killed in the water
I kept my palms flat and far
I kept my feet on the salty tar
and wept

I've been known to have my fair share
of self-pity
and equity
No, he didn't keep
No, I didn't sleep
At all

I made a map
of the veins in my chest
I followed the lines
and ended up in a ditch

So I dug
As far down as I could
Before the clay became to stiff
for my fingers to claw

So I went back to my room
with fingernails full of dirt
and a mouth full of spit too thick to swallow

More often than not
If it seems like a short time

It has been

Quite often and more
If if seems like a long time

It has been

If you live on the Fantastic Planet
Some days
You feel steel on your scalp
and steel in your palms

You are the evolved, and the constantly evolving
Rapid; rapid; rapidly
And we live with steel on our necks
and sonic waves booming
from our chests and temples.

We were under the impression of evolution
we were living with evolutionary spectacles
covering our irises until they were torn
and we were naked
and our Garden of Eden was our impression
of our stance and state

The charts were rapidly running;
like a film.
We were getting left behind in our caves
with our left hands and our flat-feet.
We ran faster than we had need to
Till we were inhaling particles;
atoms that had not existed when we were still the spectacle
And we brought them out of their Fantastic Planet
and they brought us out of our sleep.

I'll have a hard time forgiving
The Art Students who were
marinated in cynicism
And left to bake in the hot sun
With brown sugar
sliding down their throats

Who speak only the language
of French
And the language
of Artistic *** and Textiles

And
of course
The boys with the floppy hair
Who **** vinegar into scratched up sinks
And snorted ******* off of the eyelashes
of diet-coke-head-high-school girls
Who grew up
Grew their hair
And let their cheeks sink like ships
Into the cluttered caverns of their mouths

These girls are always wide-awake
and fast-asleep
And they never get drunk off of
incandescent light
And never remember to turn off
the tap before they go to sleep
But not in their beds
'*** their heads
told their necks
They didn't need the support

If dimensions were dollars
I could have bought you anything you'd like
If my friends  were all scholars
I'd lead a very lonely life

My friends have enough perfume
and prankcalls
to last them out of University
Your friends speak
with the wrath of God
and the judgment of Larry King

Angry as the bees
Angry as the chosen twelve
He searches for his keys
Underneath my heavy bedsheets

I have no silver
To buy my field of redemption
Or to hand my body
to the rotting roots and rocks
below

I've still kept my head

He still speaks to me
Through leather seats
He lays down the law
I lay down my wheat

I have not blasphemed
your Holy Ghost
But
that was always something that
other people
did
So who knows?

I still hang my head