Fast food and motel signs floating in blackness To illuminate the night sky like child’s stickers Plastered onto parent’s precious painting Decorate the mighty treadmill we used To exercise vehicular endurance and find How many times can we note the golden arches We traded hours of sleep to reach the city Of a singing Mormon’s dream He was only on a billboard for a week or so You’re as warm as the city with twice the life Making plans for another before we reach Our trial home happy and tidy
Now where’s the one who’s seen the world But still wants to be in mine? In my lap on a couch in her living room (I could go on to fill a children’s book Like the lady who swallowed a frog) Now she exists everywhere, my Malachi Constant Who makes it okay I’ll never swim on Saturn I like the way the green light illuminates my face When I’m on my way home to see her at night