Downtown Seoul

there was a new song on the air.

I saw you coming across the square.

and a white bird broke the dark korean sky

as the rest of my life went by



I had your warm hand on my face.

I took your index finger in between my teeth,

and I held it gently in place.

it was resting lightly on my tongue in there.

I saw you shaking in the cold korean air.

[and] there but for the grace of the lord of song

I would be this very second and I'm coming right along.

you had your cardigan on.

I looked toward the sky and the white bird was gone.

I remember your eyelids.

I remember your body now