our representative
Will not be in today
he asks that you kindly forgive
ill relay to you what he had to say.
he told me, and shook his head
has the look, that look of dread
and his face aged 10 years
he is gone? he was just here?
said " it 5:30
and I was getting worried
you're usually back before dawn
tell me, did something go wrong
I talked with my coffee mug
and we recalled when we were in love
I smelled her breast,
from her mouth I feel my breath
and what could I do
but love you
I believe in magic? True
I believed in we two
and, once us. too.
I brought you flowers and smoke
you brought me the heart you broke
when you left your paint brush, on the railing going up the stairs.
I see it there
chasing humming birds
on the front porch swing
chasing humming birds
and simple coffee beans
just an angel in my eyes
I'm a puddle at her feet
the bag caught in the wind flys
and guitars gently weep
down tin pan ally
to love street
would be where we would meet
and sleep
under the underpass
tucked in beneath.
the fire warmed our hands
the wood built our home
I filled and tilled this land
what's meant to share. Alone.
A tattoo of traveling bones
the skulls of the grateful dead
the ink for this letter
was originally red
and blue
with a lightning bolt through
marked with acid
stained our eyes
Lucy alone you cannot be mine
you left me with these words. "Be Kind."
©akathatguy
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