4.1.20

in the cusp of my palm
right here for all to see
but no-one can see it
it's a definite maybe I might
and a howling nostalgia
my bedroom light
visited by ghost
for some order of
ancestry
where did it come from?
does it even know its there
and i'm throwing roses in the rain,
throw roses in the rain
like my radio told me to
again and again
i watch them fall
and it's me writing sad poems
when i got nothing to be sad about at all
i'm just here by my window
with a garage bouquet
and they're not even roses
they're something close
and i'm throwing them with everything i got
so i can be a poem in the real
so i can be a song in the real
and Springsteen will come to me in a dream
in the burning of a Yankee Candle
in the paper of a lovenote
and say
"hey, you did a really good job throwing those roses"
