whenever you call me friend i fall down on my knees and cry because i know it is the only thing never to happen before in this life is something you ca not see it is a pillow under a hook shot i want to tell you something anything but you are there and i am here we are trapped inside ourselves and the distance is too far you are something that i would tell would be nothing before too long you are not the finisher of dreams you are the beginning of nightmares or waking but i'm not sure which this letter is for you in the future it will lead you on the path of goodness or of rightness or of wrong people and right meanings or the meaning will be hidden or wrestling the demon i will have become restless under the starlight it is too bright here to think the negatives would be pitch black darkness of a silver mine there are no trees here where have you been where are you now i am no longer here or there you are anywhere or are you up in the clouds is a ghost he is white and blue like a cloud he paints with his teeth he paints the rainbow before midnight that you can see from your window staring out under the sunlight through the gauze curtains over the high mountain far away that is covered over with snow past the rivers and forests that lie awake under orion hunting the bull that runs forever just out of his reach pointing the way for the two of us to join together in song or dance or that other thing and sing the grinch down off mount crumpet his heart breaking his chest thumping with the beat his little dog too running running with the bull full of laughter and blood he ca not see it anymore because it is become him we are trapped he says we are trapped in ourselves it turns out that all along it was not you or me but he and her or her and him or he and he or she and she or they even they tell us that nothing has happened even they know that it is a big joke one more thing to know before the death we are crying like crocodiles before their loved ones coffins we are bellowing with grief like buffalo on a berth of wild oxen we are wailing our clothes are in rags we want we want we want but never can we get what is it we do not know what it is but it is something it is anything it is too many people or not enough it is too few trees we need more beavers to build riverdams we need grapes too or plums from the ice box or an ice box even would be nice all i have is this cube is not that right or is a sphere a cube a donut a coffee cup your hands in mine yes that's right now bring the water to your face clear and cool and full of something what is it wanting or yearning i can see in your eyes they're clear now they are as clear as a running stream or the sky that's clear right or the water that is in the bahamas because i hear that's clear you're as clear as the sound of a bell you're as clear as the braying of horses you're as clear as the glass in god's eye and i i'm as dull as an ox plowing through fields in his yoke i'm as dull as clouded amber i'm dull as you find me tonight after dinner i'm reading the crossword you're sitting beside me you're watching tv