Exhumation (Dirt: Part Four)

	DAVID:
There’s a flow of bubbles that are going through the byways
There’s a kind of flow of bubbles that are coming through the
and it’s like sipping through a straw but they’re going through a different kind of fios, fiber optic
with the
the bubbles are coming through
and there’s a kind of balance
a balance that comes
where the molecules are lifting me up
and the currents are coming
and they’re coming and suffusing
and just gently massaging the edges of my arms
there’s a kind of general direction to the current
the current generally tends to flow this way
it’s tending to flow in a certain direction
and, well, go with the current
the current is definitely going because
there’s a kind of pre-ionized
where the super-cooled superconductor
the spaces are filled
with the bubbles coming to the non-spaces that come
and through
and came
the super-cooled conductor
there’s no resistance whatsoever
there is no resistance
it just comes
they’re coming through
and they’re coming through because there’s absolutely no resistance
they’re completely resistance-less

	IAN:

This is really heavy
what you’re giving to me here
This is really deep and heavy
This is kind of some serious thoughts
it’s like usually when someone lays this kind of heavy deep thought on me
usually we’re like really wasted or something
but I think I’m completely straight
I think I’m straight right now
and that’s what’s bothering me
is it’s hard for me to take these really heavy things you’re laying on me
and take them in without like some mitigating influence
like maybe I need to modify my mindset
because if you lay these heavy things on me
it feels like they might take me over
like they’re heavier than my own self
like if I pull these heavy things into me
they’re just going to crush my own identity below the heaviness
and I’m a little worried about all this heavy electricity
it’s like heavy water that you’re putting in
and it’s crushing this hole in me
this gravity
the power

	DAVID:

hole
black hole
singularity
the surface collapses
right inside the inner black
the black pearl
where the tongue comes out
and lashes
and gives you a good tongue-lashing
somebody came
and the carbonized carboniferous age came
and the black face
laughing uproariously
with the fingers that came
and soot that came stained
with the black
you will never ever be clean again
you’ll be covered in dirt and soil and carbon until the end of your days

	IAN:

the creosote
put the creosote on the timbers
coat the timbers with the creosote
get that smell in your lungs
get the smell in your lungs so we can float on the timbers
you need the lighter-than-air smell in your lungs
it’s not just the timbers that float
you need to float on top of the timbers
get the smell in you so that it keeps you lifted above the water
get that smell in you
we need to take this raft to safety
we need to take our treasure across to the island boys
we need to bury our treasure in the other island boys
we have gold
we have fruits of the earth
we have money in all forms and currencies
we need to put it back into the earth where it came from
we will come and get it after it has decomposed
into a huge mass
that has no value on the open market
but is a valuable mass
of former energies
all mixed together in one giant lump

	DAVID:

excavate
example
an “X” marks the spot
the ex-kingdom
the example
the exact
exaggerated exactitude
where we extracted the oil
the ex-rulers
the ex-gods
the ex-kings that ruled over this ex-kingdom
the gone, has-been, leftover
washed up, no-good-for-nothing
eXs
down, sinking down
their old kingdoms down there
and we stand on the spot
that had been preordained and pre-marked
and a rumbling in the earth
underneath our feet
reassures us that we’re setting an example
for all would-be exhumation

	IAN:

I was waiting for you to show up
I was really waiting for you to show up in this capitol city
I was waiting for the revolution to come
and you finally showed up
I was waiting for all the bodies to come out of the earth
and walk back into the capitol city and take it again
all the people who’d been secretly buried
who’d been dumped in the mass graves
I knew that one day they would get out of the earth
and they would join their friends
and they would walk back into the capitol city
and the would take it as their own again
covered in the earth and the ground that they were put in
these people of the bogs
these people of the earth
these people of ground now
taking over
running the city
letting the city run the jungle
the jungle takes the city
the people of the jungle take the city
the city is the jungle once again
all one, the city, the jungle
all in one place we have made
we have made three people
we have made four people
we have made a multitude of people
we have made a human city
for the jungle creatures

	DAVID:

my friend was
dead
and I had his ashes
so I prepared for the ritual
by painting them in paint on my face
I was wearing my friend
as my makeup
and the ritual began
and the fire was lit
and the stones incorporated the heat
and we threw water on the stones
and the smoke, the steam rose up
and my friend

	IAN:

there are many places to put
the ones you’ve lost
some are high and some are low
but there’s always the correct place
you just have to look hard enough to find it