tell the sharks: don’t follow this ship. I’m captain now. here are the new rules. look at me. where we’re going, there are no roads to remove, no souths to sink into. no names to take as meaning you, yes, you there, tall. nobody will ever be thrown over or under or off of anything. no, not even if they are dead. yes, everybody belongs to someone. each of you will live to be buried and you will be old. nobody shall lose the word for home. should you gain a new one, the choice to use it will be yours. and did I say, already, that it’ll be warm there, how there is always more than enough.
even the soil grows sweetness. we sleep eight hours a night. we make love when we feel like it. when the children are big, we keep them. we gut laugh, and we talk loud.
we work easy, easy.
and when we’re tired, we stop.