Along the Banks of the River

 

 When a dog turned to a grass hopper and said without the aid of a transmitter

could you have breakfast with me on this day before the temperature shifts

but an earthquake intervened with a lightning flash and a clap of thunder

There was a relief fund of extra sensational tourist attractors set into place

without a single way to separate them from the rest of the crew in space

but eventually it was sorted out, meanwhile all the expectations

that were having to wait out the course of events they had helped

set into motion a system of occurrences no one may prevent 

from continuing to happen over night's long strange course when

A rare sort of distant melody began to play in the breeze evoking

Crystal bat refugees replicating in darkness and budding from clusters 

inside local cavern systems to blossom into consorts of the dead

assisted by the various criss-crossing networks here that are called

the catacombs.  If this were a hive it would be the cells buried under

the slabs of stacked matter we've embedded into the banks of our lives

in strained appreciation relegated from the heart when the colony thrives 

But instead and in accordance to the desperately held onto tradition 

Along the banks of the river time can be seen from a distance that

 only the lonely know of and sing in the fading echoes of electromagnetism

called the gradual decomposition of all the lovely fading stars