Soft Atlas

A vision
Your ghost blowing up globes
Tightening them off with an X-axis-esque C-clamp
And then sending them down through the clouds
Onto empty department store shelves
Where they sit facing all sorts of islands
Toward dead wee hour isles

Has the earth come loose from its galactic neck beneath you?
Cut off above the clouds
Gone, let go from the space around you
Dropped down, done to the sun system
Cooked pearl of the one universe
Cleaved, fell, rolling toward the corner of the cosmos
In the blackened quiet of come time

And you are all planned for this

Spring is at your back yet again
Though this time rare with the clarity
Wild patches that you thought hold ground up still
But you tolerate your woe and flesh that kin
With one half dead
Yet you get a view to let the worst rose be
As if it were a glorious day to world to cope
And no one's out there, scared
Set your eyes off on the ceiling, all night, in the dark
Think of a song, or maybe breasts or missing body parts

Without a universal law there is no gravity
Without no gravity there is no atmosphere
Without an atmosphere there is no chance in life
And with no chance in life, I don't exist
Without a universal law there is no gravity
Without no gravity there is no atmosphere
Without an atmosphere there is no chance in life
And with no chance in life, I don't exist
Without a universal law there is no gravity
Without no gravity there is no atmosphere
Without an atmosphere there is no chance in life
And with no chance in life, I don't exist
Without a universal law there is no gravity
Without no gravity there is no atmosphere
Without an atmosphere there is no chance in life
And with no chance in life, I don't exist
Without a universal law there is no gravity
Without no gravity there is no atmosphere
Without an atmosphere there is no chance in life
And with no chance in life, I don't exist
Without a universal law there is no gravity
Without no gravity there is no atmosphere
Without an atmosphere there is no chance in life
And with no chance in life, I don't exist