Everybody Hungers (2020)

• Everybody Hungers (2020)

Everybody Hungers (2020)

Everybody here, everybody hungers
Buoyed by reveries, avoiding those of strangers
Everybody greeds,
Everybody hungers

I build a tunnel to your face
Through books and bags
And people with their papers,
Pressed, creased and laced with
Inky inky words, dusty ink
Leaching into finger prints

Your songs are yours and yours alone -
O' would I were a song within
Your private megaphones
Does everybody greed?
Does everybody hunger?

I looked across the future and I saw only pain,
A feverish cloud of passion
Then a stalking slow malaise
Then, leaning on a steering wheel
With ashen eyes and words tending to dust
And broken seals,
The noise recedes, the light congeals.

You find a tunnel to my face,
Book surrenders delicately,
Almost imperceptibly
Excepting if you're anxious to perceive
'Cos everybody greeds, everybody hungers

Eyes locked in fierce tug-o-war
You never want to be the first to fall,
Or even worse to be the first not to fall,
The universe a cotton-ball
Dry of all the possible.

I looked across the future and I saw only pain,
A feverish cloud of passion
Then a stalking slow malaise
Then, leaning on a steering wheel
With ashen eyes and words tending to dust
And broken seals,
The noise recedes, the light congeals.

Alternate versions:

Everybody Hungers

© Brendan Bonsack
April 2020

1. Not Leaning, Not reaching
2. After the Bee
3. What Should We Tell the Kids?
4. Out There Breaching Quarantine
5. I Wish I Could Tell you
6. Closing My Eyes on the Up Escalator
7. A Natural Selection
8. Their Joy
9. Everybody Hungers (2020)
10. Tell Me About the Revolution
11. Sing for You
12. When Fever Comes

I Don't Remember the Future
Released April 2020