There goes that toast again, four chipped
glasses full of some kind of ruby held up
to the sun this time, death crumbs falling and rising
like dust-motes, fish eggs, bubbles, here’s to you, bubbles,
here’s to Mardi Gras, here’s to the apple tree
pinned against my fence, here’s to reproach,
here’s to doing it to music, here’s to fog,
and here’s to fog again, and life dividing
inside the fog, oh when it dissipates
let’s make a circle, here’s to the baby hiding
inside his clothes, here’s to his being
alive without me, here’s to the mountain again,
for what the hell, I might as well be on the mountain,
here’s to delectables, free health care, love, popcorn.