It’s a fever in the night
A black cone turned into a mirror ball
An incandescence you try to forget
It’s the glittering fetid overwhelming urge
To re-split the atom with an axe
Santo and Johnny shuffle back
Pulling at magnetic heart strings
Double-knotted stuck under
Your boot soles
Oxygen evaporates to the
Tom Tom of your approach
And I am deaf to all but
The hollow buzz of time running out