In that weary night
we drove that wreck
with a junkie's persistence
into the jaws of failure
reserving our hopes and abandoning
all legal forms of identification.
In that weary night
passed among us the mysterious
laughter of shared pain, the
dangerous tools of the new enlightenment
and cautious words beyond definition and sense,
not some new profound language,
but a spur of the moment jargon
suitable for an occasion
of such dark weary laughing.
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