You brush your teeth every day while
the coffee of slumber ulcerates my stomach,
and you go out to a snow blast while
indoors everything dulls my daring.
I forget not to sleep while
you’re combing your hair,
the party isn’t over,
and you come back fatigued when
I awake to the dazzling
certitude of nothingness.
Oh, you’ll dream, you’ll rouse,
you’ll wonder, you’ll settle
for happiness that fills you
with certainty and comfort,
while you brush your teeth and I again forget
to set the alarm today so I can wake up tomorrow.
And in a karmic world when my passion conjures you
you’ll ask what’s become of my tuneless songs
and I’ll have lived many lives, with and without you,
I’ll have loved you and forgotten you
many times, you
loved and forgotten,
nothing between us except
love and oblivion, love and
oblivion, love and
oblivion.
