Bite Through Stone - Ceschi

For every bicycle in China there’s a

Cryogenically frozen embryo

That will

Wake up in a cold sweat

Run around the veteran’s hospital

Wondering what gave birth to it

Then we’ll sing the national anthem

While the government rounds up zygotes

In the latest titanium nets

So they will keep their baby mouths shut

And suck down freedom with the other runts

But I’m an impostor here

I feel it in my bones

And in the way that I have never cared

About American hope

Yes, you’re an anomaly just like me

So let’s fuck in the street

To show them what it’s like to be free

You’ll give birth on a highway

With fifty frozen babies on all sides

Curled up in their ice cube wombs

Sweet, closed eyed

We’ll come up with their names one by one

Till every letter’s used

And they’ve thawed out in the sun

Then we can sharpen swords in sync with local textile workers

And sew together sinew for our injured ally warriors

Building in solidarity beneath coniferous giants

Planning to shove spikes into the backs of sleeping tyrants

The subtleties of war are loud and so obnoxious

That they can shake stem cells out of test tubes and leave the deaf unconscious

Nobody ever taught us the most valuable lesson

Now there’s a tragic lack of expression on the faces that we’ve dissected

We’re impostors here

I know it in my soul

I also know that we can rip through the skin of a monster’s throat

I know that all our knuckles combined can break a mammoth’s bones

And all these tiny teeth together can bite through stone