tuesday, we are royalty

tuesday, we are royalty
august 10/07

we are the kings and queens of liberty --
freedom inherited and lining our pockets
as a small fortune bursting at the seams
and up
and out
and now we throw open our young hands
to collect whatever tonight’s air is offering

i still myself and scan the room like a camera lens,
willing these familiar participants into a slow motion
velocity in opposition to the frenetic molecules they are

we are charged
we are science
we, of the laughing, footloose alliance

build up one million walls of sound like a home
of perpetual music and nostalgia, to live inside
until the sonic boom of our euphoria destroys
the place in a last quake of discontrol

and this is what tonight’s air is offering:

we are rogue ions
we are electricity
we, the kings and queens of liberty.