I never believed in anything
as much as I believed in us.
I'll never forget dog breath.
You taught me how to trust.
You taught me patience and
humility and to be kind when
it wasn't deserved but atone.
I need you more than ever to
show me the way back home.

I don't know how to save a life.
Yours or mine life of any kind.
Fragile hearts will die by knife
cut wrists until they bleed blind.

Throw a final dart
place to live to die.
Final beat of heart,
final kiss goodbye.
Cremate me I learn
be happy in an urn.

I'm an undying romantic.
  My heart has been broken
  time and time again. I always
  go back for more Love's token.

I splash around the ice
while I drink box wine
write this broken verse
nothing could be worse.

Communism
Socialism
Karl Marx
Eat your own
let the world burn
even the worms turn.
Catholic Catechism
Baptism, Confessional
gun fights, last rights.
Incense and Myrrh.

Poetry snobs can kiss his ***
and beg his fans for a pass
into his simple connection
an honesty of real reflection.