Tragically Hip – A Beautiful Thing

In the ulcerating silence

perspective comes

the way it always does-for it’s random

so randomly…somebody calls…

the phone rings and it brings Niagara Falls

and 3 o’clock in the morning

“‘You’d better be dyin’-and you were

-So we talked about time

and where it went,

unremarkable events,

and how one day took two days

and they got spent.

how you’d continue, carefull, in degrees

trying to do one true beautiful thing

and your beautiful thing

it’d be

a beautiful thing

to see

that beautiful thing

continuing

‘I don’t live there, I just commute’

secretly cradling a joint and I might puke.

a-fumble with the keys, under duress

the point is, this is, practise duress

at 3 o’clock in the morning-

‘you’d better be dying’- and you were

-so we talked about things and where they went

big remarkable events

and how each day’s a new day

and they get spent

how you’d continue, artfully, like the breeze

trying to do one true beautiful thing

your beautiful thing

it’d be

a beautiful thing

to see

that beautiful thing

continuing

your beautiful thing

continuing

your beautiful thing

will be

a beautiful thing

to me

a beautiful thing

continuing

your beautiful thing

continuing