When you say that
You love someone else
What you are really
Saying is that they’re
Enough enough for you
Perfect enough pretty enough
Funny enough kissable enough
They are not everything
What they likely are
Is everything you aren’t
And more than enough
Expect me to vomit
Hold the bag steady
It’s going to come
Out wave after wave
I’ve kept it in
For a long time
Keep your distance stand
Clear because it’s coming
Poisoned memories heartbreak disillusion
One heave after another
Like unloading the corpses
I will need time
After spinning so long
Like a goofy child
Falling to the ground
Watching the world fly
Like knowing I shouldn’t
But yes I did
Drink that last Manhattan
Now not even familiar
Seems similar to anything
Let me find bed
And sleep off the
Past few hard years
And emerge no worse
For the wear there
I hear it coming
Like distant train whistles
Or fronts through leaves
I smell its call
Like faraway fall burn
Or a passing fragrance
I taste its allure
Like a surprise soufflé
Or a spicy Shiraz
I’m here over here
Playing hide and seek
Those always playful sisters
Silly serendipity and coquettish curiosity
I will find you
In the Rocky Mountains
Once I leave Charlotte
I remember that corner
And that street lamp
And oh that snow
And mmm that look
When you trotted across
A wet dead street
Stood inches from me
And in that place
In that light snow
And in that chill
You quietly kissed me
I still go back
To that same place
But it’s different now
It’ll always be different
Than that one November
