Chameleon Treat

Asked an oracle
Surrounded by the ancient Grecian sand
If we'll survive
She closed her eyes and quickly prophesied

"Your wooden palisades won't save a soul
When the laurel wreath is burned by Apollo
The archer and his ship will be consumed
It's no ‘forever’, but I hope that it will do"

I wanna be with you till the sun destroys the earth
Till the planets all start spinning in reverse
The only comfort in a shattered universe
Is to be with you when the sun destroys the earth

Drift from solar wind
Hurl through space and time
We'll just pretend
It's a soothing sleepy summer breeze

And maybe we can find a place on mars
With a net to keep our dog held in the yard
Never think again about our jobs
I guess we'll never think again at all

I wanna be with you till the sun destroys the earth
Till the planets all start spinning in reverse
The only comfort in a shattered universe
Is to be with you when the sun destroys the earth

After lunch had come to pass, I heard him tell the bleary class,
"Many ways to skin a cat", laid it flat upon it’s back
And took the sacrificial knives, the sharps we're trading every time
To disconnect the fragile heart and paste it to a pastel chart

And I kept all the drawings that you did
When you were a kid
But I guess there's beauty in that too
If it's what you wanna do

Labelling the lifeless parts, he treats it like an ancient art
Where history, anatomy, will intersect so naturally
Like Muybridge's photographs, the movements held you in their grasp
Tracing lines and muscle groups, the split begins to be confused

But I liked the drawings that you did
When you were a kid
But I guess there's beauty in that too
If it's satisfying you

Finer studies, lesser art, the stem, the flower, drawn apart
Like puzzle pieces, alchemy, together linked ‘till recently
Like cutting teeth while pulling hair, In the margins of Voltaire, the
Diagrams of heads and hands that blast away the ampersands

And I wish you still painted like you did
Back when you were a kid
But I guess there's beauty in that too
If it's what you wanna do