In My Ears
I’ve got cicadas in my ears
millions of ‘em
subterraneans
lonesome bobs
horny
waiting seventeen years
buzzing and singing
en masse
a mad mating chorus
men calling for women
but there are no women
and it pisses them off
so they just keep howling
a tragic drone
and they never let up
a guy tried to tell me they were tinnitus
I called bullshit on that
after seventeen years
I’m telling you man
I’ve got horny pissed off cicadas
in my ears
and there is no doubt
that they’re driving me insane
—C Driver
