Dear friend, dear fearless reader, dear soft spot, dear drummer’s
Backstage sweat-soaked T-shirt kiss, dear one sweet world-without
-End, dear if you find this, dear feckless, damned darkness, dear friendless
Foundling pitbull & your shredded fleece bed, dear pitiful scrawl, stained
Spiral-frayed paper-edge, inked back & front, I love you two-
Fold, it’s like I was born to ballet-bend back into you, to fold myself until my
Wrist tendons rise up under my comfortable skin, when you’re cornered
Your back’s up against two walls, your booze is talking, your creatures
Comfort you, I’ll walk you through it dear, tend to all the back rent
I owe you, I’ll owe you one, if you’re reading this, then you know now, dear
It’s like I was born to break into other people’s houses, I was born to crawl
Into other people’s beds, I tried each thing, dear fable, only some were flammable &
Lonely, only one could conjugate me into my better halves, I’ve got half
A mind for playing tricks, I’ve got an eye for sparrows, I’m spoiling for the last
Word, dear feed me my line, oh I will miss our double features, dear
Movies, your silver reels can’t frame me anymore, dear movies your scrim
Is showing, your director’s cuts have burgundy-ed the floor, love leave the lights
Low, oh I wouldn’t say I’m sorry, exactly I won’t be back until I come back
For you, dear easy way out, dear selfless hallway, doorless fact, faithless
Latch, always protect your own neck, dear remember to thank me for leaving
Just before all the engineers & artists invented too many ways to remember
Too much, dear chaser, last call, dear collarbone, you don’t have to go home.