Sea Dogs

Sometimes I see things that other people don't see

Sometimes I do not see them

I don't apologize anymore, I just lace up my gray sneakers

I can't wake up all the time, or even half the time, or-

Even be on time

Now the backyard is thickening, how is it everything?

Living will one day die

The dirt is all clean and the branches are crisscrossing

Everything's sun in my eyes

I can't be there all the time, or even half the time, or-

Even tell you the time

When up in the clouds are sea dogs, and kites, and big white basketballs

The backyard is thickening, how is it everything?

Everything is alive, alive

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Alive, alive

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Past the woods and the Skokie lagoons

We were half-drunk and bulldozing Lake Michigan

I was free to choose not to be me or you

Who am I ever and ever again?

I can't be me all the time, or even half the time, or-

Ever make up my mind

When up in the clouds are sea dogs, and kites, and big white basketballs

Monsters appearing in a cotton ball line

Everything is alive, alive

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Alive, alive