XXXVII

The boys sung over old Jim's bones

The wind bubbled and swam through old Jim's bones

and Jimbo came up and he was held like a baby

Old Jim's bones in the navy, in the blue midnight

the bones sang quiet, they sang about

tromping over the wildflowers, they sang about

getting caught playing hooky

The boys were far and far,

Nico dreams of the barn under the moon and the train

Ty Man writes letters that look like bones and hides the gems

Luke is on the mountain with the hat and the horizon

Ric is on the burning hog when the red towers are coming up

Sarah counts the lights down there and the other ones up there

Larry hears the violin on the balcony and the the gap in the trees

Tony closes the wound under the bridge and the cars keep coming

Bill has the ring and the flow that we seen while we sat on the wall

The whole city was yellow like the wall of the outpost in the desert

and all the boys stayed with the bones until maybe july

that skate park got bull dozed but its bones are still out there

The bones are set up like the smallest castle on the beach

the bones all sing and whistle in the waves

old jimbo's bones seen a few things and

they sing thank you thank you boys