Exctinction

The aching solace of the salt marsh
Punctuated with a white plastic bag
That was blowing in a frenzy
This is the night of the Triffids
We were creeping like roots
Through the cat grass
We were combing the cave floor
For your mobile
The heavy duty electric torch
Locked you in it’s beam
And your eyes bounced spectrums
Of light round the walls
It was like swimming
In aurora borealis
But more densely perfumed
With Tommy Girl
I had a dream in my sleeping bag
That I had fallen down a telescopic lens
The embers rise
And give the menacing tree
A thousand eyes
You’re a palm of sleeping jewels
Perching on the exposed root of the oak
Sitting your lips on the green glass
We had something there!
I should have ... Taken a photo
But the spark died like the dodo
Over farmed and not scared enough
Of human contact
Petals collapse
And the crackling branches
Meet the bark like spider lightning
Yes, tonight we’re bringing electric pulses
To the prehistoric flora
The reds and greens of the disco lights
Twin beams meet your body
Like the rings of the Mysterons
By half past ten the sun is gone
And someone scary is opening
A cling film ball of drugs
I take a backseat
I let my Neanderthal DNA take the wheel
99.7 percent genetically identical
I want to chase that nought point three

Let’s dance tonight
Let’s take that last misstep into extinction
Let’s take that last misstep
I’ll meet you at the defining line
That separates your body from the planet
I want to set your endorphins off
Trigger sensations on a molecular level
Our legs are caked in the flint flakes
We get our cooked meat delivered
We split the bill
We split the atom

Emerson goes
Emerson goes
“Adopt the pace of nature
Her beauty is patience”
And Leopold goes
And Leopold goes
“I’m glad I will not be young In a future without wilderness”