we wait for the fireworks

We wait for the fireworks and drink

While borrowed heat drifts upward

And away into infinite space.

You look into the distance,

But you also look down

With three thousand sparkly eyes.

I hold you tight and close

The part I can reach, anyway.

How'd you become the universe?

Maybe this country is bullshit

And fireworks are bullshit

But they are pretty.

And anyway I'm only here

To watch the lights play

Across your grinning face.