Quantum Physics and You

"Quantum Physics and You"

You lay in dark water, so thick
with myth.  I found you here,
floating, arms open, eyes to the breeze.

And you said, I cannot travel
in time.  And I said In the future
all the stars go out, but we live on.

The water is syrup, the sweet, sticky
tongues of lovers past.  Your guitar
is cracked open on the shore, strings

weeping into the sound hole.

And I wanted to throw up and you said,
Let it breathe, let it breathe, like
how the cat sleeps in the red chair.

I wet my ankles with your water,
I wet my knees.  And it is you
whose greatest fear is to drown.