Charms

Tumble out the ether, my blank verse

Wild jungle out the speaker, rare earths

Every rebbe wonder, will his golem work?

Every golem wonder if they was the first

Lurch, cursed

Shots was close together like the gun burst

Optimistic as a prostitute's wishlist

Kids are alright, what he told the missus

Baby in the reeds, keep him from the 'gyptians

If she never has a seed, they gon' be s'picious

Rumours, wishes, bad blow pursed lip rape kisses

Turn and spit, note the sun distance

Won't be long now, if they comin' come get it

If you comin' come get it

Eve had a sister, who knows what he did with her

Big picture, frame was five figures

Soul suspended in silver, invoice A. Richter

Ay, Nigga

I was given this world, I didn't make it

This a crazy place

Babyface with the shiner to match the charm bracelet

Pacin', upstate bus station

Baby fat, but the babies the wolves take him

I'm not the first to believe in this hypocrisy

Circles lined with stones of a questionable origin

Wanted affirmations over harvested smudge stick fragrances

Instruments of faith, seekin' silence and comfort

Delusional hunter on a path toward agency

Bunkered, hella unwavering

Takin' to the skies, celestial bodies that the wise men follow

Stopped makin' sense when chaos rang hollow

Imagination lack work, prosperity model

Out of mystery, a divine spark

Some are drawn, some are marked

Stark phenomenon, faith starts when shit stops addin' up

Charge it to the game, plus tax just when you had enough

In this body, spirit mover, clear the passage

Why be shackled by the past tense

Dry bones of the Nag Hammadi

From the dust, reanimated and birthed anew

From the rib, there were two

We speak abundance, seekin' oneness

I have to tell you guys, I need to

To perhaps talk a little more about survival.

Because, when I say that, I have heard people say,

"Oh, but I'm not content to survive."

Because and implicit in that response

Is a certain denigration of what survival is.

That is to say, they reduce survival to a mere existence

And that is not survival

None of us are going to move the Earth one millimeter from its axis

But, if we do what we need to be doing,

Then we will leave something that continues beyond ourselves

And that is survival