the rix mix

you fell asleep in the afternoon

when you woke that evening
you thought it was tomorrow

I read a list of lonely people
in the newspaper

when I slid off the edge of the page
I could not stop falling

we got together to remind ourselves
it's never our fault
but of course it always is

so we read some great passage
from a poem or a play
& we knew we were listening
to people who did not know us
but who remembered us anyway

when I left your house it was tomorrow
or maybe the day after tomorrow for you
& there was the moon

also a funny bird sitting
on a telephone pole
singing a piece of every song
it had ever heard

a tree had covered my car
with white blossoms