the facts

there was talk of a better world

there was a cheap motel room

a girl there i went to high school with
but i forget her name
and we were all of us drunk
with two hours left on our shift

you were hitting on the waitress
and she was laughing

a body in the dumpster out
behind the restaurant
but none of us knew this

a minister’s wife, and the
truck driver was just merging onto 87 south

the last good summer
or maybe this is wishful thinking

we were drunk, though,
and there was a motel room and
the waitress kept telling you
she had a boyfriend

kept saying she had a name
but she could use some more pills
and we knew where we could get them

we were gods and
we were diamond eaters and we
didn’t hear about the body until we
woke up two days later

opened my eyes and looked at
the girl next to me and
she smiled

she said she remembered me

passed me a bottle and then
walked to the bathroom
and opened her wrists