Oh, there's hope in poetry, comfort in fiction
Like the voice of Walt Whitman for example
I have noticed something
You will have noticed this too
We cut the words off short
We like either or
We are the virgin and the who*e
You will have noticed this too
So I am led to say purely for example, purely for survival
And speaking of course from my own experience
When I'm drunk it's easy
When I'm sober I try not to love you so hard
Will not love you so hard
You will have noticed this too
For you were on the other side
In a San Francisco loft you couldn't pay for
I could feel your heart beat through the floor boards
I waved my hope around like a cheap flag
Whose colours had faded
Whose emblem was laughable
What is whiskey in the morning but a clear path to the door?
What would Uncle Walt say to the silent floorboard?
Hope
Hope