Kurt Vonnegut Said 

"There are two types of people in this world. Good guessers and bad guessers." 

I was a bad one. 

I thought maybe, 

You were the calm before the storm

You were the storm

             &

I was a sail boat 

Weathered and Weathered 

Crashing into the rocky bay 

I lie with trees

And War Gods blight my veins.

There's a tell in this

marbling;

A vein of truth.

I tried,

but there are, honestly,

no

fucks—left to give

in the darkness of days.

I lie with trees

And Morpheus persists.

Eyes bright berries, but

the woodpecker has come

for insects beneath my flesh. (He inspects.)

I tried,

but there is . . .

Only

This—

A special tag be put on the toe

Of the heart that sees what it wants.

When the vein go toward

The fingers and feet

And the life does go

Straight to your face--

And the dusts you were watching

With another, on a lawn,

Above you and bright--

Affected.

You said

I'm sorry

I haven't done this in a while

Just tell me

What I can do to make you smile

And I did

And you didn't

You didn't even try