BOAT

Together again floating
or gliding is it
through our mixed up swirled together despair
adrift on desperation lake
look at me I’m a mess you’re a mess
in my eyes look
addicted and dying
all this absurd pretense that makes everything irrelevant
I really can’t stop loving you it drowns and softens me
the sound of drops from the gunwale pinging the glassy surface of the black lake
and now entering the mouth the narrow river to some lost interior
loser
loss

Going after you Going before me Being gone all together
That’s all
That’s it
I really can’t stop loving you.