Open the door with a turn of your hand
And sit beside me in the passenger's seat
Looking out the window
We'll drive away past the city lights
Past the gloomy glow of gas stations
And the saturnine sleaze of suburban sparks
Which splash the stars from the sky
Follow the graveled blacktop of the interstate
Through the phantoms of pines
Draped with the calico scent of evergreen
And the music of nighttime beings
Wear down the tires
With miles and miles
Drive north to the end of the earth
And stop the car
Sit beside me on the world's edge
At the horizon of everything
And wonder-struck, watch the spinning of the stars
Dangle bare feet above the ancient abyss
Talking for hours of all we hate, and fear, and love
And of nothing of at all
Until the night loses youth
As the curling rays of sunshine lift above the darkness
To gold-leaf the globe
And our eyelids fall with the coming of morning
In the absence of blackness
Sleep beside me on the world's edge
At the horizon of everything











