Jasmine+Lager

Pass Around Poem I have been drunk for almost 3 years. Would I lie? Can I lie?  When we river, blood fills cracks in bullet shells, oars become fingers scratching windows into dawn, Ice cakes the ground. We break into something with every careful step. And in the midst of all of that I say: Not fare well, but fare forward, voyagers.  Sunlight blinds as we travel highway 101. Clear, December, 2pm. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">A rock, a leaf, mud, even the grass, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Each morn a thousand roses bring, you say: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">We saw nothing but change in all the ways we went, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Like to a lion of scorched desert Afric, who, seeing hunters, pauseth till fell wrath, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">face becoming locked, mouth of agony shaping a cry it cannot utter. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> Just when he had given up thinking he’d ever write another line of poetry, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 19px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">It hits him. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Tiny, Ukrainian, Makeup Artists <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Striding down the dark hallway <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> I notice something that appears far away <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">My judgment is wrong. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> The hallway isn’t that long <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The object is tiny compared to me and this hall. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> Running toward my discovery I began to fall. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">I’m not where I was at the beginning of the poem. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> Now I appear to be completely alone. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Shocked and confused, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> I begin to look for clues. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Why am I in this prison**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">? ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Possible Pregnant <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> So many feelings pulsing through my Body. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">This feeling that there is a Possibility. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> Am I or am I Not? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> I guess I will soon find Out. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">This life changing effect of my Actions. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Still waiting, 1 minute changes to 10 Minutes. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> The answer, I see through my Tears. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Always

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">I love you Always. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Through thick and thin, always. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Bad and good times, Always. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The trials, the tribulations, Always. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">In sickness and in health, Always. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">With all the memories we have, Always. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">From start to finish, Always. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">To infinity and beyond, Always. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The question I ask is, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Do you love me Always?