86 faith 86 faith! 86 FAITH!
86 love and 86 happiness
86 real friendships devoid of
judgement
86 sentimentality and
86 propaganda-free television, perhaps
yeah,
86 independent thought
do you remember the ideals
behind the communist revolution?
the dreams underneath
the San Francisco revolution?
the purpose for
the human revolution?
do you remember them?
well, 86 those
86 all those nights we spent wasting
away the hours in long discourse
about a million differeent things as
we lay back on the hood of a car
watching the stars as they moved
slowly across the clear, dark sky after
a really great movie and it was so
beautiful and serene and perfect
and we came so close to kissing
but somehow it would have been
wrong so we didn't and just kept
talking
86 creativity
86 truth 86 decent music
86 something to
believe in
86 Walt Whitman
86 Allen Ginsberg
86 that day we walked 5 silent miles
just in time to watch the sun rise
over the canal

86 all those times we read Frost
and Kerouac to each other around
a bonfire drinking coffee and
wine and not seeing the
sun for days on end we instead
revering the moon in all her glory
86 irony
86 sarcasm
i don't know
just 86 faith

02/06/2002

Author's Note: 86 is a military term that has been adopted by restaurants and others, meaning "We are out of..." or "There is none left of..."

Posted on 02/06/2002
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