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You hear them sniffing above,
Ant-eater jamming its tongue down the colony holes,
toward the queen and her spawn.
This is the fate of many-legged,
the connected and respected,
shiny-black, segmented and fully divine descended.
But we are food to those snouts,
elongated, long-faced, murderers that always pout
when they’re about to carry out their frenzy:
destroying our world via forcible entry!

Beady eyes as black as skies,
hiding so many lies,
these things we’ve come to despise
as we are cosmically wise.
We feel it when an ant dies,
we feel it when an ant cries,
we miss our fallen allies.
The eaters have been unwise
to come to this nest wasn’t probably the best idea:
when they begin to leave, they’ll find surprise at home inside to see an
ant much larger than a bear.
These ant-eaters will feel despair!

Global warming.
Growing antibiotic resistance.
Overfishing has left the seas barren.
Overfarming has raped the earth.
The emergence of AI; our mistreatment of synthetic beings will be our undoing.
Rising sea levels.
Mutually assured nuclear destruction.
The breakdown of democracy.
Microplastics are choking wildlife.
The cult of celebrity fanaticism.

And on top of all that…

The Giant Ant will sever their lineage,
place their souls on placated scales,
remove the sin from their bellies,
and shorten their faces.

Their tools will be cast to time,
tethered and bound to space.
With their eyes looking on,
never closing.
Never closing...

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from Working Class Artists, released October 9, 2020
Jonty
Anthony
Vinny
Mark

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