Diseased heat, August on the 101 - let me up
The pale moon offers no consolation - would you let me up
Mosquitos, fat with our marrow, ebb and flow through the gumbo,
this human bouillon, our cesspool - stop!
Won't someone please let me up?

We're buoying atop the mercury - let me up
we're the salt of the earth, from a cell of the surf,
this universe won't 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!

Won't someone please let me up?

We don't exist in an instant - let me up
There's a hole in the floor, as black as my mama's womb
(those were the days), why'd she let me up?
I can't stop thinking of the time I was swallowed in this brine - Let me
up

Mama, this planet is a placenta -
pull the plug, let the heavens rise above - won't you let me up

I can't stop dreaming of the day I get swallowed into space
Let me up

I'm drowning in the egg - Let me up