January 29, 2011

The Fairy Tale Factory

we met in a factory full of fairy god mothers and tooth fairies

young and broke but full of


dreams


long before you developed a taste for fine scotch

you and i would watch color tv and

get lost in


space


kicking forward twenty five years latter on the

lower east side at an aa meeting

we met


again


i didn't tell you that i didn't believe in this

rhythmic kick it


crap


and the only reason i was here was to meet

women who


drink


over coffee you were somehow able to encapsulate

the last twenty five years of your life

in one perfect


paragraph


but no words were needed to feel how broken

we'd both


become


and then you smiled and i knew

that you


remembered


when we were

both


new