And as reverie gains and as thoughtlessness fails and strip mall doors wring out open and shut and your hand over my hand presses the glass back together loosened out of our joints following said words hot air balloons from out of the mouth to the united sky and cuts home out of the neighborhood
The trick’s done! the obvious not finished go! you are saying too much leave it in the restaurant to-go box back at the table
Day is covered and we see you night is exposed and we wait till you’re gone turn around and catch who’s watching
But not alone! but so alone! drunk and bedraggled sober and salty spreading our rest out on the ground
The strictness of beauty the ugliness slack a dead phone under a sky full of stars maybe you’re trouble Beautiful Thing hideous nothing may I have this dance and a slow moon and a fast sun to sham the body in glow moving childhood over here no over there where it’s safer on this side of the road to whatever the anesthetic to detail the fixed excuse me Beautiful Thing Ugly Nothing move your shopping cart off of my ankles
What does it matter? everyone will presume not to notice But you! But me! unstuck and out of it
