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Rocks Have Souls

by Cuttlefish Agenda

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the catfish swam along the river bank
until it stood up right to walk out of the water
it left its gills at the bottom of a tank
and accessorized in red

it swam back down to visit what had sank
and it grew up tall to give someone a daughter
it checked its mail and started up banks
and when it died, it bled.

would you be surprised to see
a group of trees uprooted
or a trail of matches leading up to your house
where the gutters and the windows
are all ripped out and broken
and your kids are sitting with nothing but stumps around?

you may have left the oven on
to long in your relations
or the lining of your morals has a charismatic hole
and you believe we all receive
an equal shot at heaven
but god has standards and rocks have souls.

what it left behind when it passed
was an open tomb to a casket of stones
a brazen altar in a temporal cast
and all the time that it takes

to grow into the movements of the grass
and the still water blanket that furnished the bones
and now its inside every forest we've passed
and all the crutches they make

someone said in jacob's ear
go build a bunch of ladders
so he stretched out over the landscape dropping structures of wood
he placed them next to roadways
into lots made out of limestone
and he climbed up to the top of each as high as he could

he folded up his followers
and dispensed them over mountains
that skewed the trickling rivers coming up to here from there
and it the same toxic stream
flowing out your fountain
you take a drink and sit around complaining about the air

but would you be surprised to see
a group of trees uprooted
or a trail of matches leading up to your house
where the gutters and the windows
are all ripped out and broken
and your kids are sitting with nothing but stumps around?

you may have left the oven on
to long in your relations
or the lining of your morals has a charismatic hole
and you believe we all receive
an equal shot at heaven
but god has standards and rocks have souls!

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released September 1, 2015
all music and artwork by Abigail May

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a paramilitary coalition force of sea animals against ocean acidification

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