this is a sober honest poem
about how I can't imagine
a life without your shakes
and your verbal pictures of
earthquakes

this is a poem about
how lust is love
without friendship
and we are love
without
lust

this is a poem about
my dreams and it screams
my brain awake sometimes
about how our greatest
feat is not dying at the hand of drink

this is a poem about
the tubes of light on
rooftops in July
and sparkler breath
when we near riverbeds

this is a poem about
our need for sacred
sound and ground
and strings buzzing until
we change them with
hand combinations

this is a poem about
learning about poems
this is a lunatic
screaming about politics
through shattered glass
dead goldfish under corduroy

this is the list of names
our brains would be labeled
in the shrinks offices
anxiety ******* in your ear
all check marks
and watercolors

this is melting new shoes
on the edge of a fire pit
and screaming ****
into blades of grass
it's all asinine laughter