Elephantine

Sharpen your stunted tusks in this city night
Yesterday a wide-eyed stabbing
Tonight a crowbar fight a desperate fight

Sleeping alone and drugged frightened fat and wet
I swear I'm chasing sanity
Lost easy laughter and forgetting

I'm going south
To feed the animals
I'm going south
Become elephantine

Elephant in drought-struck shock is trumpeting her grief
Stays with her dying baby trunk stroking dry and persued
She dies too

How can I justify wailing at these walls?
Every great nation ends up deserving war