In future
literary giants will knock down
stiff
drinks
in coffee houses and bars
up-and-down the eastern seaboard
and come to blows
over the meaning of
you

In future
we will be all
brighter and prettier by
every minute
we've known
you

In future
we be
missin your
sunday evening poems
delivered your careful way
through the long distance line
like a new orleanian midwife

yeah,

In future
sun-babies will recite
you
by heart
& giggle
when they sing the
boom boom!
part.