How's the cane, do you want me to get you a few?

No, I have one more.

That's my cane you're using, old man....

That's the cane I was using a few months after I gave up my love.

Your backyard looks dead, he said.

I looked around, well, there's some dog shit.

This place used to have mulberries. You guys ever eat the mulberries?

No, I said.  Squirrels get to it before we do, what can you do?

This place used to be happening, he said more or less.

You should read a book, draw.

I can't draw, grandpa!

You should do something,

He said with some angst and love, 

so I tried to play an old guitar off tune with missing strings in front of him,

I was drunk....