chronic pain
the spanish princess and i trade
horror stories about chronic pain
she mentions that she has recently
started to think about suicide
i told her the first time i thought
of suicide i was eight years old
couldn’t tie a good enough knot
had the rope, the ladder, the tree
in the backyard
damn small fingers
i dream of us slipping away one
summer evening off to the pacific
ocean
where i will take the spanish
princess into my arms, make love,
drink the wine and may we die
dancing in each other’s arms
who am i kidding
she lives thousands of miles away
and i don’t think my twenty year
old vehicle is going to make it
there
but i do know a few tall bridges
and exactly how gravity works