OPENED ENDING Poem by Jacob Groot

Whether you're alone we're not about to ask
because I'll wait as long as it takes for you to say it

And then I'll say: you are alone because I'm with you
And if you then say that's only what you are when you're alone
I'll say:

that's exactly when you're with me. All across the world I stand up

from the steppe, by the bare light, in my addicted
body from which I pull the spirit loose till I can brew

the coffee from my bones, and I keep grinding
till you have found me among the dogs. But

do you hear me complain that I'm alone? For I find you
in the answer