I want to marry you That’s the way it is, true Not just paper, or for show In the way only we know It’s true, already though

We are Greek, in a democracy We are not pawns for autocracy, We the characters of an Odyssey, Are not your lies for tooth fairy, We are humans with lives you prete…

I’d like to write a story In parts of six or seven I only know the one, Can we write it together? Everything will be just so

Iron doves and death The world can sort It’s sordid mess. I am not alone Who does not have

I hope you get your dreams From where I sit I cannot see. I hope you are in gilded light Near it does not surround my eyes. I hope you have sound peace

Your grandma gave me nine dollars After having breakfast on Broadwa… And it wasn’t her but still, She told me what was and I said m… Sincerest apologies true.

We are all, who never willingly to… Blue light home, flashing yellow s… The world in between, on whose sha… Flashes yellow and red, and spends… Intruding time, we cannot fix

We were... Once In the middle of the night I wrot… While you pretended to be asleep After I was. and awake suddenly i…

Remember, we were young Let’s meet at the courthouse And try to get all our freedoms ba… Whatever you would like to do, We might get distracted, have coff…

The issue is, We, those of us who did not come h… Willingly We’re too red And white

All the cars have been robbed There was nothing in the vans They made gold of air The radio blares pretend And the traffic’s rough again.

The only promises I’ll make Are the ones you’ve already seen i… I swear, on my life. Paradox of poem and silly sky So is life, on faith we dive.

I’m sorry thats what I meant to s… And that it happened this way I saw some things For months in California Then across the road

As the wind settles Eyes grow dim, tired still In the morning we begin again In so doing, if you can Please do not pretend...

Turpentine and willfulness Robins and terns, with etching sti… We gliding by, whole as much in ou… No it’s not nothing, an epic, for… For surviving with the beauty we h…