Forest Fires
Hope Slide
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I'm lying here on the floor In front of the air conditioner You're asleep on the bed And I'm too hot to hold you So I'm cooling off on the floor Like a cat A little anxious Made by your recent health scare I scroll through Facebook To see what everyone is doing with their life The first is of a friend I went to Journalism school with He's covering the Armageddon that's become the Okanagan The second one is of another friend Who's doing a restoration on an old yellow chair The third is of a girl I interviewed years ago for Link Magazine Oh she says life is too short to drink shitty wine I mean I guess? The last one is a memorial For my best friend's father who passed away One year ago today from an overdose His mother had called me Her voice was wet and trembled at hello Something was wrong But not quite as wrong and fucked up as the situation really was He was asleep on the couch He'd been living with me For several months after I returned from Europe I went outside And did what I normally do When I don't know what to I paced around my alley in East Van And called my father And told him what had happened And went back inside Somehow finding the courage To break the news But he was already up He burst through the kitchen door Wailing Thrashing Sobbing With a glowing iPhone in his hand I took him into my arms And realized we'd never hugged before In the five years we'd known each other It's so strange The way Nothingness transforms out of nothingness Like a virus Or a disease Or life itself is derivative of nothing A moment without feeling Like my bad sense of time Or like forest fires Aflame in English Bay First there was beauty Then catastrophe Born from a biblical lightning strike But for now I get up off the floor And get in bed with you I've cooled off and now I can hold you So we can both drift off into nothingness And in the morning transform together
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