Wherever It Takes Us

She's weaving from car to car Checking the doors Leaving, leaving bloody handprints on the paintwork All locked shut Drops to her knees gasping Wheezing, can't breathe The gas mask's leaking, acrid smoke Her pain, her, her, her slip's on fire She flaps at it Swung ringed wrists flap-flapping Beat the embers out From her crouch she tries another handle An old Pontiac Unlocked, she scrambles in Slams the door shut, ducks down Peace We're all in wherever it takes us We're all in, it breaks and it shapes us We're all in wherever it takes us Let's ride She strips off her slip Blotted heavy with blood Tosses it on the pink leather backseat Smoke coils out of a zig-zag cut on her palm She sucks on it, metallic taste Underneath, a jagged flap of skin Wisps of DNA unwind Uncoiling, dissipate, float away "An upgrade," she laughs Words pour out of her mouth, bubblegum Like, like, like, hieroglyphs Bioluminescent opaque shapes Fill up the Pontiac And here it is, here it is We're all in wherever it takes us We're all in, it breaks and it shakes us We're all in wherever it takes us Let's ride She's in the multiverse Connected lives overlapping like a Like a hall of mirrors Lives lived and shared, lived and shared Affecting her now Gig-gigabytes of history like a Like a, like a map Ancient cultures where men sit around the fire singing Whilst the women keep bringing the children in She strips off her skin suit It puddles at her feet like worm cast Every cell illuminates and expands Spools upwards, melting Dissolving into, into cold light She dives in Illumination And here it is, here is is We're all in wherever it takes us (She's made of stars) We're all in, it breaks and it shapes us We're all in wherever it takes us Let's ride We're all in wherever it takes us We're all in, it breaks and it shapes us We're all in wherever it takes us Let's ride