Ohio

Turn left up the street Stumble off the train platform, I saw you shivering Hanging out the window in the Lincoln Tunnel Drag your knuckles across the tiles I was there when you became more than just the sum of all your parts Angel trumpets in the dark But there are many things I wish I could remember I remember playing your favorite song Hoping you'd hum along The rattle of the radio rumbles loud Take a sip and drown it out Crumpled pile of cans by the creek A gravesite marks the night Here lies older empires collapsed in a heap And prose too plain to write I remember driving down broken roads Your peeling skin exposed AC broken, saw you sweating through your clothes There's places only we can go But you were always watching from one side of mirrored glass Think fast like cigarettes out of highway windows, galaxies collapse So much closer to where I started than where I thought I'd be You bring the smile, I'll bring the teeth Devour me When did we become so halfhearted? A concrete field of reeds You bring the smile, I'll bring the teeth Devour me I remember you in an August way Chiaroscuro haze Saw you watching summer evaporate Simple like the words you say Wash the rust from your hands by the creek A gravesite marks the night Here lies colder embers than I've ever seen And prose too plain to write So much closer to where I started than where I thought I'd be You bring the smile, I'll bring the teeth Devour me