Down by Okkervil River slow silent thick and
black, I stared into the water, and the water it
stared back. The night it fell from tangles of the
branches on the shore as it had on Okkervil River
before. Down by Okkervil River's cigarettes and
rusty tires, we made ourselves an altar, we lit
our nightly fires. And the smoke lay thick and
smothered all the skunk cabbage and vines where
Gods were born and Gods lay down to die. With your
hand inside my pocket, you whispered in my ear
"We have come from ugliness to find some refuge
here. With this bracken for a blanket, where these
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where we can be alone." And I tried to tell you,
as I kissed your hard dry lips, all the things I
dreamed about. I touched your bone white hips. Far
away our parents slept in while we watched our
fire burn. They dreamed of nothing and got nothing
in return. And the water slipped on slowly past
our bodies in the weeds, pulling plastic wrap and
razors on its current through the reeds. Then I
woke up one cold morning, felt an absence at my
back, and I searched and stared but only the river
stared