for mike.

i call your bluff, brilliant boy,

the light was always in your eyes

and lit up mine for days and for life

for the fleetly passing passing since we met-

i would have loved more offcuts of memory,

longer and more bracing than our fragile time,

but the door opened and shut

before i could pass through.

your shadow leaking

forever through the frame.

rest in peace mike altieri 1986-2009 the best smile ever.

always with love. i vow to always coil cable properly, own at least two copies of the backstage handbook, smile through it all, and raise my glass twice for you every time i drink my jack. there'll never be another quite like you.