4:00 am is a pretty important hour 

the hour i rise the hour i fall 

the pivotal point of all of our calls 

for it is either the beginning or the end 

of a chapter. 

i once was told that if 

two writers come together 

they'll be met with disaster

jealousy will crawl through their veins 

a needy green babe 

and the art of comparison 

will become their only concern 

but i have found

that when two writers come together 

such as, you and i 

things tend to work quite well 

between your eyes of blue 

and mine of brown 

there is sky and earth 

and common ground 

beneath your sea

and between my clouds

there is a creature called Love

we're not entirely sure what breed 

but there's definitely quite a bit of lizard

you can tell by his blue tongue 

and sorry eyes 

and the way he says hello 

now we agreed that if we ever tried to raise a child it would be a wreck

but we didn't discuss a creature

and i think we'd be quite good at it

in fact i could think of no other 

i would rather raise a creature with 

especially this particular 

and delightful mutt 

because i would hope that they would learn from you 

elegance and honesty 

and cleverness and poise

and how to sing real well 

i would hope that they would learn from you 

the intricacies of connotation 

and that they would ignore my thoughts on the matter 

that they would learn 

kindness and goodness and how to be true 

to your beliefs and what makes up you 

i would hope that they would adopt your venom 

and your detestation for not knowing 

things that you would very much like to know 

that they would learn saucy mercantilism 

and how to sing in cars 

and how to open one page at a time 

i would hope that he would learn from you 

as much as learn from me 

and i know that together we can grow 

this wonderful terrible 

thing.