Brazen Rationalities

we will drown of course,
because that's how all the true romantics die.
once we're terribly old, too terribly old to swim,
we will buy a boat.

a canoe, we will take it out in a
storm
and learn to breathe all over again,
u n d e r w a t e r .

we will paddle out to the middle of the
shaking lake,
and rock the boat
(we seem to have made that a habit)

until it tips us into
our very own
reflected
n e v a e h

we will tread on the moon
only long enough for this last catharsis
to finish draining us of heat and
hurt

once we're terribly old
we will buy a boat.
because you've always wanted
a boat.