29. Starting Stuff Together

amid the aftershocks of riot

its suppression a tsunami

amidst this degradation

we must work & build together

first food, then language

linked & mirroring

let each one be rebuilt

we shall feed together

our needs are simple & ridiculous

they can be matched & will

satisfaction within this present

a rich meal cooked up together

that allows the return of each thing

but lets it sound aloud

you must hear such lovely detail

gritty & gnarly as we are too

yes there are risks, demands & needs

answered in every language

let us test it with art

high art & children, then

noise & dirt, too – these

we must use to build from the rubble

to make them into something real

touch them, let them touch us together

improvisation of course entails doubt

because it is never complete nor as expected

like the continual start of voyaging

each moment may change the task

for the light may open as

a glowing screen – ah! Windows

your ungainly tastefree literalness

becomes joyful, a sign of reassurance

for entropy will eat the clock

but we do live within its eddies

turbulent & turbid, silt

abrades, accumulates & burgeons

strange things the people walking this new land

dangerous, ridiculous & endangered

after the riots & the flood

let’s laugh about this stuff & start