The Meat of Life

I fed the fawn the rotting fruit
Split the stalk, inhaled the shoots
Spread the spores
With every labored breath

Spit dissolved the mushroom cap
Stretched the tendons 'til they snapped
I gathered up the shells with bandaged hands

To grow the meat of life
I will plant my seed
To grow the meat of life
I will

I fed the fawn the ripened fruit
Naked 'neath the monkey suit
The feasting ants found shelter
In my shade

Their tiny tongues invade the crops
Unblinking eyes receive the drops
The crackling fire lulled me back to sleep

To grow the meat of life
I will plant my seed
To grow the meat of life
I will

To grow the meat of life
I will plant my seed
To grow the meat of life
I will

To grow the meat of life
I will
To grow the meat of life
I will
To grow the meat of life
I will