 After Ken has been shot and is recovering in hospital, Alex visits  him late at night and reads him the following poem: "If pain and  hurt and ache I crave / Or a fire to burn my soul / If tears I  choose to cleanse mine eyes / Then to you would I give my all. // If  lips must be bitten but never kissed / And neer to mention your  name / Then nought is left except to die / As a moth unto the  flame."