A fat man somewhere trips over a KFC bucket
the Earth’s rotational axis reverts itself
pornstars in the proud state of California
in the glorious state of coitus
the San Andreas Fault smiles and bides its time

This is the world, non-negotiable
a little girl in Africa gets her glasses from a charity project
life outshines death if only for a moment
and we congratulate ourselves by doing nothing

We’ve become what we’ve become:
a chakra tattoo in the backhand slap
that wakes the world
baseball bats held high towards a Baghdad sky
and you know there ain’t no game today

Yet aren’t we ever better? Ever more questions in the answer
the will to dive headlong into black water
to know what is there and who you are
who we are
insurgents in the undertow