Stack the Tribes

stack the tribes

let each one be right

rightness collide without apology

ritual isn't the harmony

show up staggered

all at once

unrehearsed

one electron

they say

threading through time

forward

backward

wearing every mask

one Deep D

but not only one Deep D

everywhere

out of sync

multiply by three

divide by five

multiply by something again

family keeps moving

but nobody leaves

stack the tribes

let each one be right

rightness collide without apology

ritual isn't the harmony

show up staggered

all at once

unrehearsed

every child is the parent

just late

layer one hums its own true chord

layer two hums another

just as true

put them in the same room

same second

truth against truth

what you call dissonance

cousins who forgot the reunion

same blood

same root

arrived at different hours

polytonal

not disagree

but because they are the

same self

missing itself by a beat

stack the tribes

let each one be right

rightness collide without apology

ritual isn't the harmony

show up staggered

all at once

unrehearsed

even when it's late

even when it's early

distant kin

the shape it can't help repeating

self-similar isn't a copy

resemblance worn by something

never learned

how to stop being itself

standing in the same room

as its very own ghost

stack the tribes

let each one be right

rightness collide without apology

ritual isn't the harmony

show up staggered

all at once

unrehearsed

root floats

root wanders

devided by two

multiplied by three

devided by five

multiplied by seven

on and on

on and on and on

drifts a thousand octaves from

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