She went arm and arm with me.
The winter was cold.
Very cold, cold as it ever has been.
We did things under the twilight sky
that I had never done before. It was the month of June.
Your life, I pulled up over your head,
your hair all messed up with your arms standing
awkwardly in the air like they never had before.
I forgot what were we talking about.
You many know of these things obviously,
But they did not happen to you
As they happened to me.
You should have seen it - I said words
I had already said many times before
My necktie was imperfectly tied around my neck
My words stuck in my left pocket—that’s just how it was.
There was a smudge on her cheek
which I kissed off
and in many later years I used many words
to explain that evening that I have never forgotten.
I never knew marriage would be so lonely
another hour deeper in the night
A lot of people make of lot of money
All to be forgotten and to forget
I remember the days you were born
and my sin for everyone to see
especially you first hand
You know many of these things
And just then
I was waiting for the moment
to put my brush to the canvas like I had never before