Come with me Now into Forever Raw


10 dollars
for gasoline
no money
for cigarettes

but

if you come
with me
now
into forever
raw

because you need us
to work
because i need this
to live

we will write love letters
to the children we were
in 1986. forgive

him
her
them
god
our
selves.

we will kiss our
invisibly red wrists
twist twenty fingers
into absolute reckoning

exhale &

8 years old hum

while the static
of my jensen
broadcasts
such love.