Don’t Push the Button

Just don’t understand why so many want you to push the button

don’t push it please don’t push it

you are making me nervous I am slouching toward nowhere

art is not enough

performance is not enough

something is missing don’t push it to fill the vacuum

it is something that has not been solved before it is that simple

you must find that achieve that it is not too late

the button of course is not the answer of course

it provides an ounce or two of arousal

similar to the walls of Patrols

similar to the 30 billion dollar aircraft carrier you just set out

into the metal oceans

do not push it I am nervous something is off-kilter

it is beyond words beyond poetry beyond Milton and Sappho

it is beyond Paz and Ko Un it is beyond all the African

drummers it is closer to the ashes of South Sudan and

the green skulls of a Mexican State I cannot mention and

the massacres the massacres so many massacres in plain sight

do not push it

we will fall leaves or snow it is that simple

we will not have to wait

for 3 billion more years to perish

as the solar orb dissolves and cuts the forces that hold us

do not push do not listen to the war provosts beside you

come here where we sit

in this annex between walls of a nondescript house

where we shudder

where we write and string the guitar the fervent bones we

spin on the floor do not push it