Queen City

Queen City by Garrett Crissup Oh, I come, right behind the rain

chariot athwart, crossed an infinite plain.

A’forded, I gamble, like our founders, like our kin

Wealth enough to crash markets, wealth enough to crush men

Those prone to ramble, humbled, wind-rolled

To auric o-bli-vi-on, stretch fields of gold

I eye, their exhalations, the Dragons of the East,

I sweep past, another’s questing beast.

Grand Grain Goliaths lay, In the ground, in silence.

Here I  belong, the Land of Sleeping Giants.

Oh, I come again, take heed, then enter

Enid, the Queen City: of rape and red winter.

I come to her kingdom but not to see the Queen.

The people make this place, on them I fold, I lean.

I come to this land, I come to stake my claim.

Come sister/brother...Play the unwinnable game

Her Purple Martin Majesty, the way of her star child.

Come all ye faithful, the ambitious, and the Wild.

Old Skeleton, first crick, springs, then station

Horned serpents, over under, tie this nation

On yonder southern gate, they ask not why,

Thunderhawks, makin lazy circles in the sky.

Joined they fracture-drill, macks, mud men and their mothers.

carry on yon carriers, farmers, and the others.

The trail blurs here, all tears and bloody

drive no further, far too red & muddy   

Rather Sooner, than later, a boomer, I may not be

Indian give or bust, a landruns never free

I come to her kingdom but not to see the Queen.

The people make this place, on them I fold, I lean.

I come to this land, I come to stake my claim.

Come sister/brother...Play the unwinnable game

She want blood from a stone, an Idealist’s Idyll

Be weary strange swords thrust, hands of the Idle

She built a Fairy Tale Empire, meant to fairy Fall

But Queen Enid fled, she saw the writing on the wall

Here they hid, thy kingdom come

lady of the lake, here, the land with none.

God didn't damn this land, happy endings just end

But when Change blows in, we don’t break, we just bend

Us, we Took the deal - the dust, fear, the sand

Doubt not Drought, dammed by our own hand

Pipe dreams leyn, she turned meadow to lake,

alabaster towers grow - there aint nothing they can’t take

I come to her kingdom but not to see the Queen.

The people make this place, on them I fold, I lean.

I come to this land, I come to stake my claim.

Come sister/brother...Play the unwinnable game

Those unwaken, caught in’er clause

But it will come again, what once was

Hear the siren thunder, tend the kyne

You, yon leyman, will you walk the line?

Can you take me up, can you cast me down

ahh hero they need, er will you seize the crown?

Will you take your place at that round table

Heed the call, help us tell our fable?

We can lose but we can't fail

Like the twister, winds our tale

Tribes united, we trod the Nexus splinter

Enid Queen City: of rape and red winter

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