When the streetlight hits at just the right angle
And the toilet won't stop flushing When the engine of every car that passes is playing your song You will remember him You will remember the smell of his deoderant mixed with sweat Which knuckles he cracked before he laid down next to you His peculiar snore and inability to understand sarcasm will escape you You won't remember his inferiority complex How he beat your understanding nature into you You will focus only on the taste of his skin The way he brushed the hair out of your eyes How he left you for Someone Else Someone Else with more money and lower expectations Someone Else with newer and more interesting insecurities Someone Else with a penchant for tolerance and a large thyroid gland Someone Else Someone Else has a lazy eye and a recurring case of crabs Someone Else enjoys country music Boone's Farm And the company of old men with shrivelled dicks and fat wallets Someone Else is a sea sponge who mistakes patience for understanding Fuck Someone Else Actually Fucking Someone Else is unadvisable Not because you don't know where they've been But because you have a pretty good idea And one of those places is at a Motel 8 in Des Moines Forget about Someone Else Find Another Person willing to take your shit and turn it into fertilizer Use that fertilizer to grow a garden Cultivate that garden and cook you a nice vegan meal Thereby making you eat your own shit But not in that "eat shit and die" sort of way Another Person would make you eat shit and live healthier Another Person would be willing to put up with your nervous breakdowns and tears Take those tears and bottle them Wait for them to ferment into dreams that they would then drink with you Actually that sounds kind of over the top for Another Person Let's pretend Someone Else said that Another Person would hide behind doorways and attack you with kisses Hold you like a grudge Someone Else will tell you that if you keep your chin up your eyes forward your head held high Another Person will find you Someone Else will tell you to smile That if you keep pointing that best face forward it will stick But an eternal optimist is cursed forever to see the bright side of things And despite what Someone Else will tell you Seeing too much brightness will make you go blind You'll be stumbling around The Wrong Part of Town Another Person's image burned into your retinas Another Person is never under the appropriate sofa cushion Doesn't post ads on Craigslist.org If you keep checking the refrigerator when the light goes out Another Person won't be there Another Person is hiding under a pile of your missing socks Behind you when you look both ways while crossing the street Another Person is in your front pocket next to your keys Waiting for you in the last place you'd think to look Because if you keep looking for Another Person after you've actually found them You'll end up with Someone Else Current Music: Alanis Morissette "21 Things" Link Leave a comment | 2 comments Mon, Oct. 25th, 2004 03:32 am (local) laklareCool. Link Thread - Delete - Spam - Screen - Freeze - Track This - Reply Select: Mon, Oct. 25th, 2004 09:09 am (local) natawn84people must hear this piece, hell I might even read it myself at our reading. Did you ever get my chapbook in the mail? Are you ever going to send me a chapbook?
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