in the city of strawberries

          it's never harm
                    the distance we
                              left behind. it
                    was perfect in
                              and of itself.
                    distance
                              a friend of the mind
                                        it races my life in all
                              directions. in songs
                    i never wrote: there
          is my life. there is
yours. there is ours
          the one song that we
                    heard a million times
                              when we drove away
                                        into our very bleak
                              future. like a fairy
                    book story twisted
          in parts. it was good
when it was good
          and it was bad when
                    it should have been.
                              had i known perhaps
                    i could have stayed
          still it is better for
both to move in a direction
          that lifts us into space, he
                    makes me laugh, he makes
          me love, he makes me remember how i was