Nothing to Declare

2 eggs over easy toast & jelly coffee black as night

I know you order for you while you fill out immigration forms & flights

Date of issue surname passport address & postal code

You know all my numbers check my boxes I have nothing to disclose

Just the sand in my shoes & the wind in my hair

I’ve come back empty-handed I have nothing to declare

But the travelling blues and memories of you

I’ve come home empty handed I have nothing to declare

All your lotions and tonics & your large electronics go in the tub

Your face was in a locket I’d forgot was in my pocket and made it buzz

We woke up to a new world sanitized spread apart and masked

We all fought & argued hoarded shamed blamed lied cried and crashed

I did my laundry in the bathtub in a New Orleans hotel quarantine

While the big muddy churned with riverboats flags and party queens

So I went to bed so early in hope that you’d come find me in a dream

But I woke prematurely when these words came flowing like a stream