blessings

you were so bright,
so angry,
wrapped there,
clinging desperately,
thoughtless and,
immovable.

stuck on like a stamp,
that won't wash off,
it stays, after the hangover,
after the cough.

you clung there,
poetically pathetic,
stammering,
stuttering,
rhetoric,
you were,
poetically pathetic,
like a drunk fool,
swearing his soul,
to fish nets,
to the north star,
to hell and high water.