As old men in our mid-twenties, let's be rebellious, let's stay up past ten, let's put down the good ol' book we can't get away from, and denounce sleepy eyes. We'll give it up to reading outside the lines of our circumpolar stars, page-fold the space in-between and hold it out 'til dawn. Don't breathe here! Just wait... for the august of another sunrise.
Goodbye: It's something beyond this life, something they all say takes time, but the fall knows this dark soul by name and illusions of the past insidiously circle back so many times before we die.
The backyard hurries to burry the end of a drag; she hears the echo of an eight and a half inch sole on faded neon black: The pillow of footsteps coming home The little pockets of the street that collect his cigarette ash like rain. They're praying for failed discoveries: The yellow residue that bites at the webbing of peace fingers, The nonexistent twitch of their lips, before the tainted kiss, Like the worlds wasted their nights on ABC sitcoms. Like the drift of steam from hot Octobers on ice. Like the coat hook hold on a season 11 years ago. There's a conversation starving in the attic of their dreams; Dead ends still being filed with the gritty overbite of teeth. It's where the dusty pages of the bible taught them how to lie to themselves, taught them how to negate distances of love with god; His thumb ended up closer to the Marb Reds than her side of the bed. Her mind on the USA Golds he won't ever know about. Their smoldering like gu...
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