All the lists and forms
fall away in the final hour
clearing slates for friends
and all their hysteric power.
Clinks and cackles play
in our boardroom of hearts,
trading updates big and small
from since we’ve been apart.
Uncontrollably we howl
with laughter from the gut
filling the night with joy
that slams the long day shut.
Aching ribs and damp eyes
bookend a wide smile fold
charging the strut home
with a fortune we behold.
