I heard the bells and 
whistles
How tastefully they’d shear 
my ends
and loosen me
How I wanted to see New York with you 
again.

I had mere seconds 
to impact,
The sheen and shimmer of the world 
with its knife slicing me through,
dripping me down,
measuring my effect in 
coffee spoons.

So frayed,
I wrestled the 
suck,
to remember 
remembering you.