It was the darkest ******* night You could imagine, especially In a town like ours, Stripped of streetlights Down to the basic blinking Of a single red stoplight, Where the first selectman Probably wants us to feel Invisible, which is ultimately What we really are In this corner of the earth Blind to war and starvation And disease and discrimination And bug bites and sour milk And lost pen caps and return-to-sender letters… Those things aren’t native in our minds They don’t spill off the surfaces Of our tongues because We have people to worry About that for us— Well, I don’t— But we couldn’t find the reservoir So we sat in my car, turned off, Emotions turned up, And it winds up we were Right next to the reservoir The entire time… It had just blended in With the sky and with the road, And if I didn’t know any better I’d say we were just floating Along the water as I told you things And you held my hand And the soles of your feet Were pressed up against my windshield, Which left imprints in summer dew, there, And on my heavy heart, But it was so ******* dark And I didn’t even notice until morning, When I couldn’t feel you squeezing My hand every time I told you Something new, When it was light enough To find the reservoir, Which I don’t even think wanted To be found.