In a dream I saw the summer bleeding azure cross the citynAnd the city bleeding sapphire o’er my shoulders,nLike those memoriesnAll shimmering, all crystalline, and tied ‘round broken branchesnHeld above the heads o’ phantom childrennMassed on either side o mennIn a dream I saw the words all rise from well-thumbed cracklin’ pagesnSaw the words boilin’ on sun-kissed stonesnAll shades of saddest poetrynI tasted every syllable o’ those mournful, dawn-light versesnAnd I gathered them and swallowed themnAnd felt them swell inside o’ mennShe’s all needle-eyed again and he’s all slung cross line againnAnd somewheres ‘tween the two, a song…nThey’ll dance around that melody, they’ll kiss in G and fuck in CnThey’ll fall, the song still skips along…nnIn a dream I saw a cancer spittin’ rabid over youth, I sawnA generation crucified ‘neathnMiddle Eastern skies, I sawnThe dimming of the streetlights and the snarling of the riflesnAnd God and gods all lashed I sawnThe guilt burn back their eyes, I sawnnA consciousness all colours of the morning ‘gainst the windowsnAnd the rain all tippin’ tappin’ at the glassnMy hands are pressed uponnA whisper as a slipstream, as a burst of August radiancenThe blooming of those promisesnI lay my dreams to rest uponnnA circle all electric hiss, and tongues entwined and smoke-rings wispnAnd weave and paint the pulsin’ skynA triangle, a trinity, a triptych points to you and menAnd something else still undefinednnAs I wake I hear the slinkin’ of a record someone’s playinnIn the room beneath this room all strewn withnFragments of the night beforenI woke and I heard fusion, I heard Bitches Brew all oozin’nFrom the speakers stacked beside hernThree abreast upside the bathroom doornnThe day is tricklin’ glorious across those skyways ‘head of usnAnd somewhere to the left of usnA song worth singin’ waits for usnA lyric speaks to none but us, and yes, on loan to all of usnA tune played in the key of usnOn strings plucked someplace under us