text: We inaugurate the evening
  Just drumming up a little weariness
  It gets late so early now
  The waves come in mountain phases
  Linked impossibilities
  Branching possibilities
  I’d see fire where not supposed to be
  In the empty library at suppertime
  By the respirating basement door
  The dog eats out of an old tambourine on the floor
  I’ve been told you can live a long, long time on the love of a dog
  And that things get bitter and bad
  When the people are wrong
  And sleep can be had for the price of a song
  Late in the day
  When the options are gone
  When the seatbelt’s the only hug you’ve felt in weeks
  When wrong numbers are the totality of your social life
  The obscure strategies of wildlife
  Only flummox the hell out of you, kid
  I first saw her in a megastore
  The Day-Glo raven
  Born into a free fall
  Like plastic Easter basket grass
  Falling from an overpass
  The fulfillment of a tenth grade prophecy
  A motel masterpiece
  Blind to the branching possibilities
  Blind to linked impossibilities
  Teardrops were standing in my eyes
  Like deer before they bolt
  It was like I was stretching my arm through the cat door to heaven
  I was thinking I could lick the frosting off these summer days if nights were half as sweet
  Me like a banged up dog walking half sideways
  I adored the way she modified my mornings
  When I’d wake up in the calm shoals of her bed
  Somersaults and smoke and a universe of sleet
  Before she slipped into her heritage
  And disappeared
  Now every second thought is out of control
  I guess in a way I long to be rad
  When I was with her it felt wrong to be sad
  Did I tell you an angel finally came and shut my mouth?
  There was a smile and a tear in her voice too
  And she taught me
  To relight
  Relight and relight and relight again
  They tell me you can live a long, long time on the love of a dog
  Things get bitter and bad
  And sleep can be had
  Late in the day when the options seem gone
  Please let your eyes be a friend to me again
  It’s just malfunctioning teardrops
  A cowboy overflow of the heart