Didn’t mean to let the world back in,

it has a habit,

                             a
history jones

she called it in Detroit

                                                a
habit of needing       

                             and
wanting,

          the
names of the dead who did this

to us,

             our ancestors the fish, the founders,

Olson had it,

                             knew

          the
so-called facts

                                      of
times and places

are song enough

and what they did

is what song says,

a roaring metabolism of remember.