Morning Prayer with Rat King

gravity accounts for the distance between weight and mass it can also mean alarming importance human bones are so full of gravity it’s hard for us to swim I lost my glasses chasing a branch in the ocean which is far too deep to dredge      sometimes I imagine the sea’s made of actual tears this would explain the salt      think of all the disconsolate toddlers weeping right now into the earth the tears must go somewhere      it’s important to consider everything to name what we’re able      oceans give us rain but we don’t call rain ocean knot a dozen rats together by the tail and you’ve got a roi de rats which is harder than rain to hear in the night and far less welcome       who mourns a rat king frustrated chthonic always the biter never the bitten they give us the evil we need to stay moored to good still I would break any promise to avoid finding one       O Terrible God of the Mechanical Age I am your favorite pilgrim yet even I am finding it impossible to speak to you now without asking for protection