Have you ever been a thousand years old

For just one moment?

Have you ever seen the sun rise

Twice in one day?

Can you imagine what would happen

If things stopped making sense?

Send money for drugs.

(For me)

My head is exploding-

   My god,

   These magnolias are beautiful

   As they faint

   All over the ink-spill post-dawn

   With shadow women, flowers full-figured.

With what if’s and why not’s-

   Those eternal have not’s.

   Magnify me, darling.

   There’s not much left anymore,

   Our America

   Is burning in a trash can, again

(For Her)

She dragged me dignity and all,

Back through those treacherous thought tunnels

And onto magnificent magnolia mattresses.

   Fuck…

   It can be hard to adapt

   … and where

   Did I put

   My keys?

I keep losing

        What can’t be spared.

Maybe if I just did that on purpose.

(For us)

Doesn’t this morning taste a little different?

Like an evening colored with a still coming sun.

There’s light rising on the horizon,

And we’ll live through the highs and

   Lows.

Nick and Tom