Prevent This Tragedy

Nothing less than those days we
drifted thru our shared affliction
could stoke the rail inherent from the get-go
a winged arrangement achieved
as desire trumps need even before the last card is played

remembering something Jim wrote, & I was thinking about
                              just the other day on Seabright Beach
                                                                            in the rain
how to hold these things together when they want to be so far apart

as you could time the sequence of an eventual teardrop
                              like burnt orange kool-aid & compensatory
in the guise of description
                                                narrows the compilation
              down to 1001-plus
                              dark nights of the soul
to amp the verisimilitude
              w/subtitles in a kind of left-handed esperanto
                              & a soundtrack eaten up by static
                                                                & steam-driven guitars