No Things

Noel Black

Dear Kit,

I’m sad we never did that

Yacht Rock Karaoke Contest,

or was it just Michael McDonald?

But some things need not have happened

to have floated

as bright boats of genius

upon the dark waters of this world.

No things but in ideas.

In fact, no things at all.

Just ideas

without the mess of facts,

actions, actuality... actually

Why don’t we...

[wait for it]

“... steal away”

you sing in your captain’s hat

on the deck of the S.S. Pangea —

that perfect falsetto thought yacht

on which we’ll sail

this sea

of mental illness

in between us

till we drown.