III.
My love,
Seriously cirrhosis.
Fever pitch you propose to me,
Size me up
At the jewelry store
Your long-distance promises
fray at the cord
Your signal is low
and I can hardly hear you
The skyline is yellow hazy green
looks like it's a bottle of piss,
Between the smog trapped
in the valleys
between the mountains.
We go to breakfast
You crack
Crab legs
and I think I hate cold shellfish.
People stare wondering
how someone can be so
Frank
my 11 o'clock in the morning
And that's when
I realize you have no intentions
of marrying me
you're just keeping me on layaway
and pretending
you can't afford our
Arrangement.
You lit my cigarette,
That's all it took. Twice.
You opened the door at the car,
in the restaurant and
I was reminded of a gilded era.
You ordered for me, I ate
Out of the Palm
Of your hand.
You ushered me into the jewelry store,
I was lost at
Your feet.
IV. Off & On
Two fisted chain-smoking drunk
You promise me
You're a changed man
And because I'm the same woman
I want to believe,
The same reason I left you
is the same reason I'll come back
because I love you.
