Bring Your Sweet Sounds on Down to Fort Tilden

we'll play basketball
and make plans
for brunch,
but we'll bail
the evening before.

good date.
we went to dinner
in the city
and talked about books,
but we both know
we aren't what we are looking for.

bands with perfect songs.
when I am on the backside
of a bow and arrow,

forgetting tune and time,
with a rhyme and a reference
that I know
like Bedford Ave and N. 7th.

so many crimes
in a lifetime,
not enough nurses,
a finger fan
and Egyptian licorice.

Adulthood is where you left it, 
but you don’t have to think about that now: 
You’re at the beach.

To get here, 
but we encourage you 
to come on the wheels
of a skateboard.