Luxton - Nonfiction

The night we met still comes to me

Every night

That’s why I never dream

I can’t remember what we said

Or what I bragged about

Or if you let me know you’d leave someday

But if we die this time

I hope and pray

We stay that way

You caught me carrying the casket

I thought I left it with the last hit

You are the only one

So I tried to build another you

Out of everybody that I knew

I made a lake of all the locusts

And dove in like an olympian

It feels like I’m drowning when I’m in the zone

I feel you around me when I’m all alone

I’ve been making bad deals with your ghost

And now it’s living in the spare room in my home

We were down on Wolf street

Where all the wolves meet

Exchanging a sleeve of tricks

For cigarettes and morphine

Hallelujah, hallelujah

Jesus Christ

I swear I wish I never knew you