run / hide / fight
the slow dance track plays

no one’s dancing
who remembers how

someone please

let’s build
a skyway to the moon

the weather between
here and there

can tire wings
bend fins
fray tails

someone please

turn off
the piped-in song
cut the bell’s tongue

someone please

let the buskers inside
we have a long way to go

let them sing
of views and the hand
that opens the cage

someone please