16 Bars and Fifty Cages

On Dani Compose

I could see the nouns trembling inside of her throat
She said they went off somewhere in a little row boat
She had that treasure and no one knows
Where she put it, in lieu a cryptic note

I coaxed her into some recollection
Sixteen bars, she said, and fifty cages
She studied dead texts of avalanches
No nouns and using a fun inflection

Every word a quest, every verb a vest
Dressed up, press my hands against her chest
She knew the secret to life in space
I calmly held a knife against her face

She told me where to dig, and I had to dig up
Whispered maps and things that had my hair sit up
I was looking for a cage with the antidote in it
All the world’s her head, find a place to poke in it

She wrote the DNA of the entire planet
She kneeled to me and I knew she couldn’t stand it
She’s as close to god as we’ll get around here
I’m closer to Columbus cause I got around her- HA

She tricked me dead but we’re all tricked dead
They’ll only remember what I did, I did
She’ll never live down, never fly again
Through a hole, a flag inside of the head