We Chose Hooks

remember 

those nights

we placed hooks in our eyes?

waiting in our sleep

to catch the darting lies

that swam inside our heads

do you remember 

those nights?

we should have walked

the chrome stacked streets

that rolled like silver eels

where stub ends sailed on tarry keels

in that vanishing space between 

the night clubs gaudy hush

and necessities capital morning rush

before the coffee, 

before the bread,

before the morning headlines scream

but we chose hooks

do you remember?