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