All At Once

The undertaker takes another pawn

And into the ellipse another life is born

A beggar’s burning in the morning sun

Below the window with a kitchen where the ’frigerator hums

A bird is flying from a tunnel to a church that has no steeple where the people bow their heads

A glowing spark it cuts the darkness with a sharpness and it burns and churns and learns and

then erupts

All at once imagination flows like love sweet love

Excuse me if I pull the rug out from what I’ve become

I feel everything and nothing all at once

Excuse me if I rise into my finest hour

All at once I am a hero and a coward

All at once

The moon is playing ping pong with the tide

Some fish look like birds, jocks don’t hate the nerds

A city somewhere sinking in the rain

While a heatwave takes a dive and children go outside again

Someone is fighting for a seat at a tilted table just to learn to play a game that has been rigged

Others confuse their paystub with their purpose working for retirement on country club with a

pension ’round their wrist

All at once forests are growing like love sweet love

Excuse me if I pull the rug out from what I’ve become

I feel everything and nothing all at once

Excuse me if I rise into my finest hour

All at once I am a hero and a coward

Excuse me if I pull the rug out from what I’ve become

I feel everything and nothing all at once

Excuse me if I rise into my finest hour

All at once I am a hero and a coward

All at once

All at once

All at once

All at once