i'm sorry, colin, but

I don't like when people say
"we'll both go down together!"
and hats are thrown in the air, and
reviews full of praise are published,
and everyone says it's so great because
it's just so goddamn romantic!

well,
it makes me think of you and i
flinging ourselves off a veranda
and our bodies,
suffering slaves to our emotions,
bursting apart on the rocks below,
and our bones drift out onto the open ocean.

A rush of blood to the fingertips;
if we can feel each other
then we'll be close enough
and we won't have to become ghosts
to defy the laws of physics
and exist within each other.