Love You Forever

There is a bridge running across a river I want to jump off
The bridge is so high that it crosses over the cows
And when people drive across the bridge they close their windows
Because the cows are lowing dong dong dong and it doesn’t matter

The cows can’t hear the cars on the bridge because they are deaf
And like in an airplane when the emergency air masks fall on our heads
They can only watch the cars like men who watch the sky
In the seventeenth century, crossing in the dark an ocean, and panic

I am eating Haribo gummy bears and thinking about marijuana
My aunt’s name is Rosa and she decorates her house with colored birds
The birds in the field below me are yellow and diseased
Because they have eaten too much chewing gum thrown out the windows

When the cows panic they gather into a circle and start to cry
When cows are happy they fuck like two footballs rolling down a field
When I read the book Love You Forever I was five years old
And I memorized each page, said it in my mind, and went to sleep

When I was a baby I didn’t know how to read
I watched my dad go to the war in his black boots
And then I played in the backyard with my dads brown boots
And blubbered baby boo hoo hoos to the cars driving away

Then I said to my lover take a picture of me
Driving across the bridge with my knees on the wheel
Should I have asked my mother for directions to Red Lobster?
Sometimes the ones we love are the ones we forget to notice