You keep in mind this, don’t you?
We mentioned, later, we’d keep in mind,
and now it’s later. Do you?
You wrote your brother, then alive,
an extended e-mail (again whenever you wrote
and skim for hours, we each did), and we slept
’til 11 (again after we slept so late),
and if I don’t write this down, it would
all fall away, however even I can’t keep in mind
which metropolis that was, which bus we’d taken,
what we’d drunk the evening earlier than.
We’d been making an attempt to economize,
we didn’t eat, however we drank, and that
1 a.m. bartender gave us free rounds,
whereas we sang, undecided what,
realizing you, it was Italian, and we
drank, undecided what, as a result of why,
it was free, our cups full, after which not,
and all we may do was stroll again
how we’d come, stumbling towards
our nameless room.