And on that baseball field I saw a future that never happened And in the tenderloin in a room that smelled like burger buns I thought maybe I could be an artist And looking up through my skylight I pretend that my house is a boat And deep enough into the old train tunnel I turned off my flashlights And no way I’m going back home But maybe only for a little bit And the night I told Aaron that I loved you He told me I should never tell you And on that same night, with the flashing street light He strapped his wristwatch around my ankle And in a hotel bathtub in Manhattan I cried reading a newspaper article given to me from my mother And on the day we overdosed on caffeine I tore out pictures of horses from old magazines to cover my bathroom walls And late one night, on my way back home I saw a sitting coyote staring up at the moon And on the coyote’s way home It came across dinner