Bywater

A long sidewalk summer
Softer than haze on a shrine to the others
Harder and harder to find
A red wax pile of kind

"Whose goldfish in the toilet?"
"Don't flush it, it's Freddie Mercury"
Shining orange
Unhinged
A mustached amputee, heading out to sea

Changing clothes in the kitchen
"Listen"
Midnight's falling down on the party
The bodies slipping into sleep like Freddie Mercury