The undertaker takes another pawn
And into the ellipse another life is born
A beggar’s burning in the morning sun
Below the window with a kitchen where the ’frigerator hums
A bird is flying from a tunnel to a church that has no steeple where the people bow their heads
A glowing spark it cuts the darkness with a sharpness and it burns and churns and learns and
then erupts
All at once imagination flows like love sweet love
Excuse me if I pull the rug out from what I’ve become
I feel everything and nothing all at once
Excuse me if I rise into my finest hour
All at once I am a hero and a coward
All at once
The moon is playing ping pong with the tide
Some fish look like birds, jocks don’t hate the nerds
A city somewhere sinking in the rain
While a heatwave takes a dive and children go outside again
Someone is fighting for a seat at a tilted table just to learn to play a game that has been rigged
Others confuse their paystub with their purpose working for retirement on country club with a
pension ’round their wrist
All at once forests are growing like love sweet love
Excuse me if I pull the rug out from what I’ve become
I feel everything and nothing all at once
Excuse me if I rise into my finest hour
All at once I am a hero and a coward
Excuse me if I pull the rug out from what I’ve become
I feel everything and nothing all at once
Excuse me if I rise into my finest hour
All at once I am a hero and a coward
All at once
All at once
All at once
All at once