the moment you turned & walked into the room
my world went Peckinpah
explosions of laughter
and parking garage lore
you are the unlikeliest surprise
a penultimate friendship
my war horse riding brother
charging beside me off
to our generation’s wars
in armor made from James Joyce t-shirts
imagine my uncorked shock
to meet a lion experimental
unmormon poseidon
over-the-rhine renaissance
gypsy king
this day is your birthday
you sit back all Kerouac
this day is for breaking someone else’s heart
so stick around
i’m gonna read this poem out loud to you from a stage
my next gig in town
& there’s a band I wanna go see with you
every tomorrow night
