The Slight Light of the Moon

The Slight Light of the Moon David J Walker Everyone is in Everyone is done Everyone under the sun is in the same boat It’s a big boat It’s a tugboat It’s a lifeboat That won’t float On Solipsism’s alone It’s an Oceanliner the color of October with a canoe And an outboard motorboat Lost on an ocean stretching As far across the Milky Way as The naked eye … Oh say, can you see, anything Beyond vituperate inflictions Fired from the big guns From the map of a compendiums instructions The first-rate illustrations are Lost in Space and Time The Big Boat is mine The small boat is fine But it’s yours Everyone on the dreamboat Will slowly float Into the slight light of The moon