Unknown co-conspirators, overcome by fumes, unknown co-conspirators.
Unknown co-conspirators, the Distant Early Warning Line, unknown co-conspirators.
Banking steeply off to the east away from the population centers.
A morning full of falling down.
A morning full of falling down.

When I got back to the car, the situation had changed:
the difference was like night and even darker night.
Our gathering awareness of a dull, hollow, intermittent slap —
as of someone splitting wood.
A morning full of falling down.
A morning full of falling down.

I presented my credentials for safe passage.
The guard gave me the evil eye but waved me clear.
I presented my credentials for safe passage.
I feel so fortunate that this isn't happening here.
A morning full of falling down.
A morning full of falling down.

The celebration of raw power, the denial of truth —
normal people in the grip of bizarre ideas.
Wound, flay, butcher, slay, murder without let or stay.
Wound, flay, butcher, slay, murder without let or stay.
A morning full of falling down.
A morning full of falling down.

And spider season starts earlier every year,
and there's more of them, and they're bigger,
and maybe I should move back to Colorado.
But there are black widows there.
A morning full of falling down.
A morning full of falling down.