New Years 2024

You've got some tabs with you so
you ask the guy you're iffy about to join 
& You think you'll take two, 
it was weak last time 

A dozen surfers run 
round the fire
Then to the ocean
to catch the first wave 

She asks if you've been in the water yet
You must go, let's go
I drop my bag she grabs my hand 
You run to the water you walk when you're there 
RUN she yells, run like you've never run before: 
Feel her power 
I'm running, I'm sprinting 
Autopilot 
I feel her power 
Like a drop in the ocean. 
You've never been here at night 

Soaking wet in a little dress that 
already means I'm naked 
Then it was hot, now it's a thing 
I'm about the busy streets 
Moving through little Montañita
wincing little too seen 

Wondering about the weight of the world, her world  
when the sky cracks, the horizon flashes green. 
It's like that part at the end of Pirates, 
Will's leaving with the Dutchman 
*the power cuts, the music stops, 
a record scratch, back online* 
Someone jokes this is the part where the aliens arrive 
But like it could be... 
(You've just read the Dark Forest; you hold tight to those who have been here before) 
... I wonder if I made it happen, 
if my bubble was about to pop
Wondering about the weight of the world
If I'd really done it this time. 
Let's dance instead
Make haste. 

He says he wants to fuck you--

The next day a maddening swim
the Brazilian girl says: she's recovering, 
she's cleansing herself of the night before.