he dreams that neptune is a prophet and jupiter a healer and so wakes up thinking they are more than stones and he cannot tell the difference between a heartbeat and a wave he has a bad bad sense of time and she s a queen she gives beyond her means too pure to see through his raggedy disguise she cannot tell the difference between a photograph of lovers on a beach and a man in rags and feathers in the trees she says don t tie the blindfold quite so tight this time he says don t love me to death and i won t love you to death she says i won t love you to death if you don t love me to death he says i won t tie the blindfold quite so tight this time and then he takes her by the elbow back down towards the sea where they become two very old and senile sailors going in and going out and going in and going out and going in and going out of the fog going in and going out again going in and going out again going in and going out again and going in and going out and going in and going out and going in and going out again going in and going out again and going in and going out and going in and going out and going in and going out again of the fog