The song Atlantis! by the slam poet Shane Koyczan off of his album A Pretty Decent Cape In My Closet Lyrics: Your entire body shakes when you laugh As if your sense of humor was built on a fault line And the coast of your heart falls into the ocean of your self and I’m left looking for this Atlantis Left looking for this place that exists in stories told by old men who were there when mathematics assured them Their willingness to believe was greater than their determination to dismiss I’m left looking for Atlantis Regardless of the scientists that insist my efforts would be better spent unearthing clues to where the wild things went Try as it might Faith can’t put a dent in fact So we must settle for watching science reenact the world As if the universe was curled around this globe And is we consider that the universe is never-ending then we’re not even a microbe We’re like a death threat from a pacifist, we’re nothing But the Hizenburg Uncertainty Principal states that: “Nothing is fo’ shizzle” And the interesting thing about that is it insures the principle itself can’t even be a fact But we still act as if this time we can see the forest through the trees Regardless of the softwood lumber levy we fall in line like reforested pine It’s all straight rows where everything grows a little less wild and a little more hum-drum-ho-hum We come from a mentality that rarely sees the horror in symmetry Or the beauty in non-conformity We insist that for us, everything must be clear …
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