Seven steps from speeding accidental bus bumper
Seven steps from saving twelve step subjugation
Seven steps from the end of the pier and high tide
Seven steps from a salving embrace
Seven steps seems like a lot
Seven steps is infinitesimal
Seven steps from a fleeting perpendicular relationship with the railroad tracks
Seven steps from a family member asking…are you ok?
Seven steps from saving your friend a seat in Hell’s waiting room
Seven steps from a friend calling at just the right time
Seven steps from a razor slicing bloody virgin wrist hymens
Seven steps from carving an all too perfect roast on Sunday
Seven steps one way
seven steps the other
fourteen chances
to remain and
enjoy the sun rising
promise over Montauk.