Greenpoint

You don't want to hurt anyone
 You don't want to burden anyone
 You just want to disappear
 You're an honest-to-god alcoholic
 Waking up again in Beth Israel
 You left your mother's ashes in his apartment
 Now he can't sleep at night
 And wants me to take them
 What should I do with them?
 Should I scatter them in the East River?
 I remember you talked about that;
 "The East River isn't romantic anymore, you know
 That's where the suicides go"
 Or maybe that's what you wanted in the end
 To be mixed together and reunited with your mother
 Mercury in retrograde
 Didn't you hear they found titanium in the ocean?
 Around Sheepshead Bay where it's hard to breathe
 They're wearing masks, some even take off their clothes
 And cover their mouths with conch shells
 Others say they're just doing it to get high
 Wallowing through heavy waves, eroding
 Your cheek bones suck in like jellyfish
 Words slide in and out
 Your teeth are yellow sponges
 Your tongue, a ragged seaweed
 Will you sink beneath the bridge
 And leave a bloodless body like smashed masonry?