Haiku assignment one
Public urination must be incorporated, which isn’t hard, since I tend to hang out soberly with mildly inebriated musicians on a regular basis…
Tuesday, post-Burren
I can’t feel my feet
and out back, our bartender
friend corners a wall,
peeing. You’ve had
way too much to drink tonight
so you’re loving me
loving me loving
me with arms around my waist
and a voice like a
toddler in the night.
There’s a British chill to the
evening that makes me
want to hug you back,
which is why I do. Also
you need me and I
know that you need me
& I love that you need me
because everyone
needs needing, really,
especially in winter.
For this and other
reasons I refuse
to join you watching hours
burn their embers back
from a foggy black
to a grey-white dawn, with tired
people singing the
same song. I only trust
the straight line that I walk down
is for both of us.