beer
rivers and seas of beer
the radio singing love songs
as the phone remains silent
and the walls stand
straight up and down
and beer is all there is.

sway with me,
everything sad
--
madmen in stone houses without doors,
lepers steaming love and song the sky;
sway with me,
sad things
--
fingers split on a forge old age
like breakfast shell used books,
used people used flowers,
used love
I need you
I need you
I need you: it has run away like a horse or a dog, dead or lost or unforgiving.