Please remember me happily, by the rosebush laughing
with bruises on my chin the time when we counted every
black car passing your house beneath the hill and
up until someone caught us in the kitchen with maps,
a mountain range, a piggy bank, a vision to remove dimensions,
but please remember me fondly
I heard from someone you're still pretty and then they
went on to say that the pearly gates had some
eloquent graffiti like we'll meet again and fuck the man
and tell my mother not to worry and angels with their
gray and shades but all is done in such a hurry and
please remember me at Halloween making fools of all the neighbors
our faces painted white by midnight we'd forgotten one another
and when the morning came I was ashamed
only now it seems so silly that seasons left the world and then returned
and now you're lit up by the city
so please remember me mistakenly in the window of the tallest tower
call and passes by but much to high to see
the empty road at happy hour gleam and resonate
just like the gates around the holy kingdom
with words I've lost and found and don't look down
did someone save temptation and please remember me
as in the dream we had as rug burn babies among
the fallen trees and fast asleep beside the lions and
the ladies that called you what you like and even mine
give a gift for your behavior of lead and chance to see
a trapeze swinger high as in a savior but
please remember me, my misery and how it lost me all I wanted
those dogs that loved the rain and chasing trains
the colored birds above they're running in circles round the well
and where it smells on the wall behind St Peter so bright
on cinder gray and spray paint who the hell can see forever?
and please remember me soundly in the car behind the carnival
my hand between your knees you turn from me said
the trapeze act was wonderful but now were meant to last
the clowns that passed saw me just come up with anger
when it filled the circus dolls the parking lot had an element of danger
so please remember me finally and all my uphill crawling
my dear but if I make the pearly gates I'll do my best to make a drawing of God and Lucifer, a boy and girl, an angel kissing on a sinner, a monkey and a man, a marching band all around a fractured trapeze swinger