Wherever It Takes Us

She's weaving from car to car
Checking the doors
Leaving, leaving bloody handprints on the paintwork
All locked!
Shots!

Drops to her knees gasping
Wheezing, can't breathe
The gas mask's leaking, acrid smoke
Hot pain, her, her, her slip's on fire

She flaps at it
Swan winged wrists
Flap flapping
Beat the embers out

From her crouch
She tries another handle
A mauve Pontiac
Unlocked!
She scrambles in
Slams the door shut
Ducks down
Peace

We're all in
Wherever it takes us
We're all in
It breaks and it shapes us
We're all in
Wherever it takes us
Let's ride

She strips off her slip
Blotted heavy with blood
Tosses it on the pink leather backseat
Smoke coils out of a zig-zag cut on her palm

She sucks on it, metallic taste
Underneath, the jagged flap of skin
Whisps Of DNA unwind
Uncoiling
Dissipate, float away

An upgrade
She laughs
Words pour out of her mouth
Bubblegum
Like, like, like hieroglyphs
Bioluminescent opaque shapes
Fill up the Pontiac
And here it is
Here it is

We're all in wherever it takes us
We're all in, it breaks and it shakes us
We're all in wherever it takes us
Let's ride

She's in the multiverse
Connected lives overlapping like a
Like a hall of mirrors
Lives lived and shed, lived and shed
Affecting her now

Gig-gigabytes of history like a
Like a, like a map
Ancient cultures where men sit around the fire singing
Whilst the women keep bringing the children in

She strips off her skin suit
It puddles at her feet like worm cast
Every cell illuminates and expands
Spools upwards, melting

Dissolving into, into cold light
She dives in
Illumination
And here it is, here it is

We're all in wherever it takes us (she's made of stars)
We're all in, it breaks and it shapes us
We're all in wherever it takes us
Let's ride

We're all in wherever it takes us
We're all in, it breaks and it shapes us
We're all in wherever it takes us
Let's ride