Someone Else's Rough Draft For Another Person

​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"
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Mon, Oct. 25th, 2004 03:32 am (local)
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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?