by thinking about the tattoos
I am going to get when this is all over
is a way for me to believe
I am going to beat this.
dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial,
compressing epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss,
all between the four walls of an American living room,
and four parts of a human heart.
By remembering memories
that have not happened yet
is the way for me to see
the future with me in it.