I. Two for the Sky Cars are parking crazily Downstairs today Dogs are barking lazily Downtown anyway You wonder why they do What they do and I do too Remembering if hazily Having hell to pay I never knew why only who Meant what to me Understanding loving you Love our destiny Two for one under the sun Upstairs up high Two for the sky II. Parents Who Were Cooler In the beginning of my end begun I cough like the Iron Grandmother now My father never coughed or if he ever did not how She did and I do nor did my mother Even as she died so that they had to employ other Means to the end of continuing when She saw little reason to cough another breath again Cough or die they said but she wondered why With my father out of sight my mother out of her mind Cool but kind my father cool but unkind She was too cool to live he was too cool not to forgive Orphaned I have only been cool now and then Coughing heaven knows enough I suppose For parents who were cooler than their son III. Far Enough to Rise a Star That particularity Of testicularity That which makes men lift their trucks Takes and makes for some sad fucks Nothing left but their big bucks Then that quality by which They got poor when they got rich In the end my friend will be Not the end no not of me Though I have two no thank you To that sort of thing One love heard and listened to Is the thing I sing Who I am and what I do Never mind duality One love one reality My particularity Love the gift to lift me Having fallen far Enough to rise a star IV. Bilocation Schizophrenic but photogenic they say Having a hell of a time anyway In a good or bad way day to day Hanging on hoping for the best for now Happy to be here or anywhere And when you read me (thank you) I am there Bilocation part of the vocation of One who got it after a fall after all What he taught was true but not how he thought he knew One who learned through doubt about how "God is love" One who knows how sends himself through love then now Both here and there in this poetry we share +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMXII   photo by John Doukas