from Reflections In A Radio Shower, released February 4, 2022
Music: Erickson, Gerwers, Williams
Poem: Gerwers

Guitar – Doug Erickson
Synth – Paul Williams
Voice – Knut Gerwers

"The Idle Hours Of The Fruit Fly" Poem by Knut Gerwers

in my spare time
- which is the time they spare me -
when I hitch an aerial ride through this cold gleaming realm of plastic metal and stainless lightbeams
when I am off their microscopic hooks
amidst two vivisections
to stretch my wings and learning to fly on thin air with an opened spine
I am watching these beings, discretely robed in their pure white frocks
these camouflage - coats pretending purity
faces hidden behind their scientific robbery masks
I chose to call them my colleagues
but I wonder
wouldn't they rather open up each other's spines
suck the fluid out with long straws
chop off each other's limbs to fall for a friendly discussion on a bloody floor
smiling and reasoning about these most curious consequences.
cheerfully prophesizing the progression they've presented the world with
on their last breath
not mine