THE FUNDAMENTAL THINGS APPLY

From "May You Never Thirst"

"Back at the Apartment, I place the 12 Pack of Dr. Peppers into the back of her Truck. I remember wondering to myself if she would know who had left them.
And the note.
Yeah, I left a 4-word note, unsigned.
It read, quite simply“May you never thirst”
I hadn’t felt that good since the end of the Vietnam War!
The next morning there was a little note on MY truck.
She signed hers…”Lily”"


This was 2 weeks before Christmas.
My whole demeanor changed. Its funny how being smitten will just get you to walking on air. Everybody I saw looked OK with me, whereas before most people looked like grade A assholes. The tapwater seemed sweeter, the morning Coffee more aromatic, the air clean and pure; my constitution envigorated and my hair just seemed to fall into place in the handsomest way.
I did not know if she might be spoken for; hell, she might be married. It just didn't matter. Gravity could not bring me down.

For two weeks nary did I see her... but it was Christmas...
I bought a bottle of Champagne and a 2 liter Dr. Pepper. I poured the Dr. Pepper out, cut the empty bottle in half, placed the Champagne inside the hollow, sealed with Scotch tape and took it to my friend and advisor, Alana, who added all the finishing touches. This thing looked like a cross between Lawrence Welk, The 4th of July and Las Vegas.
I put on my only good shirt and went a Courtin'. Knocked loudly on her Apartment...no answer.
But an hour later, after staking out her truck, I find her leaving and fly to her Car.
"I didn't want to just leave this in back of your truck" says I.
"Oh, thats so sweet" says she.
"I'd like to know if you might be spoken for, or can I keep on inflicting myself in this manner" says I.
"Well I have a guy staying with me right now that I can't get rid of" says she.

Gravity can't bring me down. I got all the time in the world. I just crossed an Ocean of time to feel like this. There's too much resonance here to worry about the details. For the next Nine months we became best friends.

It was a tough summer we had. My "Abominable Truck" bit the dust. It was my livelihood as a Tilesetter.
And Lily; oh my, she got the call that her estranged husband was running from the Law after robbing a Bank. They were firing tear gas into their old house. And though that boyfriend did move out, she could not quite get all the way shed of him.

But he had to wait... she was spending all her time with me.
We just laughed and laughed when we hardly had a reason.
Nine Months since I met her...
When I finally kissed her, she cried.
Lily had enough on her plate.

'They say theres only two states of Mind
One is Visionary and the other is Blind
And the best that we can hope to find
Is to meet somewhere in between...

And the last thing that I'd want to do
Is create a distance between me and you"