Power Lines

Joe Adhemar

Compositor: Joe Adhemar

Fizzing and crackling as you stretch to the tropopause
Subtly kettled bleeding electrons 'cause
These power lines feed function sublime we all need

Fixing and nurturing youngsters with neon beams
Pinning their future on the nuclear fusion teams
All of the light from our portable phones wrecking souls

Cover the landfill
Burn what you can’t kill
Cage all the chimps that have tried to escape what you sell

We sold all the silver to the market dismay
Disposable incoming future today
For the people who sold out to the
People who hold out for less

The power line’s tripping as the monsters crowd round
Feasting on bones before they’re in the ground
These power lines drawn that will keep us forlorn
And alone

Cover the landfill
Burn what you can’t kill
Cage all the chimps that have tried to escape what you sel