Foxfire - Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

My friend from back home moved into our already crowded two-bedroom apartment

That now housed four

And five when Cathy would move in later that year

He was unyielding and used logic

Like a hammer or a martyr

And would hurl question after question across the four-foot gap

Between his mattress and mine

It absolved me of any last remaining doubt

There was a certainty that finally settled in

That had been torn open during my freshman year

Over a course in Cultural Anthropology

I am comfortable knowing that this is it

There is so much more beauty in a life that also has death