4.8.00                    Prague, Czech Republic

enlistment
we are on your side
it was the flowers speaking again
they were concerned with my own
          historical reference
even doing nothing at all I am
          a figure
even without trying I become factual
a part of a larger movement
instead of answering the ad
I spied on the vegetable court
spent half my last money on a phone call
because half the world away we both take
          to the road
me on a bus to Split
you in a red car to Rhode Island
500,000 undiscovered land mines surround the
          country outside the divided town of Mostar
keepers of the no longer bridge
If the bridges disappear are we
          free from all responsibility?
Are we letting our duties guide us?
If it's not one thing          it's another
and I need an addiction
danger? I laugh in the face of it
no, just kidding, I am mortal and afraid
more and more mortal with age
getting closer to what I avoid
          I love you I say and
          you say it back but
I forgot to tell you why
which is death and love is the
closest vehicle to Other, to the
          highest nothing and so we cling to it
cling to it          so please
do me one favor          just don't
disappear until I get back
let the spaceship take off without you