This is the first part of a two-part track, finishing with 2020 Masked, I Advance
Track Lyrics:
“Masquerades disclose the reality of souls”
Says Pessoa prose as I dodge potholes
“Stay Safe”
Keep valuables safe
Locked away in the safe
Safe or protected?
Which is selected?
“Stay Safe”
To drive safe,
Deliver safely to safety.
Be careful, and care fully.
And now hear:
“Stay Safe”
Me or each other?
To protect one another
A paradox or some other
To deliver you safely
Is a risk to our safety.
The precision of protections
That protect the protected
And reject those at risk
To infect and be infected.
Prepared
Or protected?
Essential
Or residential?
Is it fiscal
or risk-all?
Überanxiety
Essential
And elemental,
This movement
To summon another,
A friend, sister, brother,
While the action that passes
May endanger the masses:
Überanxiety
in systems
with brakes pedals
Long broken
Provoking
The limitation
Of transportation:
Three times as long
To wait for a ride
So people can provide
From work back home
It’s a route well known
But slow or no go
At all,
With no drivers in the system;
Workers relied on a system
Made überessential:
A system of pressure
It’s systemic, it’s systolic
Keep pushing to survive:
Freedom to rest
but needing to drive
(Is not freedom)
Living the test,
A bee in the frozen hive
I pump the brakes on ice.
A breather break would be nice
While new messages compel:
“Please don’t cancel!”
Who do you serve?
Who do you serve?
…
[Continuned in Part 2 –2020 Masked, I Advance]
One World, Two Axles 