"You just do whatever" The words out of you Like a drunk leaving a bar looking for a fresh new last You were not a man of But did your best to advice You offered me "You can't do whatever" And I know what you You meant that I choose to do, I must not be aimless I not simply spin this globe and go wherever I stick my finger Because 71% of the time I end up in the ocean And if I do end up in the ocean I can't do whatever, Better learn to
"You just do whatever"
The conversation came after you me about heaven Told me that you thought would be specific to each person And that each person would their own version of it Then asked me what would be
I was so to tell you, "I don't one" But you nodded head, as if a suspicion that school had robbed me of a in some stories You said "you don't have to what I believe, its enough to be good. Be good" I will. I will think about heaven Your heaven would be the same haircut, It would be a stick a dog and some A lawn that always needs A six-pack of pills in short bottles and your real teeth back Because dentures could never master that bottle opening trick you loved to do The first time you tried it with dentures I had nightmares for a Because I though your mouth had off heaven, would be Austria before the war And Canada you met grandma It would be head sandwiches and blood sausages Other deli meats that would ensure you would never ever to entertain dinner guests And I would never be in of having my lunch stolen heaven, would be a stash of Problems you could fix with your hands I you tried to fix everything with your hands I remember the days I remember the They looked like tiny blankets, as if your knuckles had all off to bed Walls that like they'd said something to get under your skin And where suddenly to pay for it I know you an angry man Finger like spent shotgun shells, bleeding smoke cocktails of gunpowder and singed plastic You had some people would call, "a temper" But you loved a joke, if it was on you Something that would crack open the of your chest and let the wind tickle your heart enough to let you know it was still there You didn't always laugh, didn't smile You did keep a mental ledger of what you your "send flowers list" I remember thinking it was a thank you to who got you good But learned the after my grandmother added a thin layer of sand to your sandwiches Because you refused to make your own lunch for You told me about it when you picked me up school that day You said "Grandma just made the send list" And I "Because you love her so much?" And you said "Because I'm gonna her" Of you didn't Your of kill meant two months before winter, a seamstress take in each of her coats a few inches So on the first day she one She fumbled with the tightness And you there smiling then said "Honey, I love you no matter how big you get" She did not And managed to staple your smile into a straight face she told all of your friends at work that you had to move into the spare room Because you couldn't farting at night You often asked me "If I had a heaven, what it be like?" And I told you that for such a small word, if, is just too big to wrap my belief I not bend to the hypothetical But wish now I would've if it was just to ease your mind in the belief That I be headed to that other place you believed in I would tell you now how my heaven is It was here, in the gentle warfare of your relationship Grandma volleys were traded back and forth Like hockey cards between children who didn't care the stats meant My heaven would have been someone in grade finally willing to trade me their fruit roll up For my tin of My hell was wondering "why?" Why would you give me for lunch My would make you laugh Cause I get the feeling you didn't get to do that much my hell, through the night terrors and bloody noses Through the eyes black, bruised back, sneak attack, nap sack and coat hijacks You did your best to seal up the cracks in my armour and made my heaven I have loved to have made you laugh more To your send flowers list just once So I you now my if If there is a would have a post office And I could letters to yours The first letter read "Hell's not so bad, they pretty let you do whatever"