let me up

diseased heat

august on the 101

let me up

the pale moon

offers no consolations

would you let me up?

mosquitoes fat with our marrow

ebb and flow through the gumbo

this humid bouillon a cesspool

stop

won't someone please let me up?

we're buoyed in

atop the mercury

let me up

we're the salt of the earth

from a cell of the surf

this universe

well let me up

let me up

i once had gills but they closed up

had webbed feet but they dried up

still have lungs but they're sewn up

stop

stop

won't someone just let me up?

oh

we don't exist

in an instant

let me up

there's a hole in the floor

as black as my momma's womb

those were the days

won't you let me up?

i can't stop thinking of the time

i was swallowed in the brine

won't you let me up?

let me up

mama

the planet is a placenta

pull the plug

let the heavens rise above

won't you let me up?

let me up

let me up

let me up

let me up

let me up

i can't stop dreaming of the day

i got swallowed into space

let me up

let me up

let me up

let me up

let me up

i'm drowning in the egg

let me up