Now That I'm Back

Woman woke up early

Heard a scraping near her brain

Imagine when the doc took out the roach

How much she must have changed

Afterwards it dawned on me

I heard noise from every corner and

One night ate raid-seasoned spaghetti

Look up, a metal sign

Clangs in the wind

From a wire

Talk small if at all

My news is blind

And on fire

Only me and big trucks

Lost, driving from upstate alone

I came in and she had

On that white uniform

I had my first coffee with her that morning at home

Victory

Gold-plated over violence

No present saved for memory spiraled and bent

In your bedroom

Voltaire's severed head

Stared me back to bed

You tried your best

All the way to the end

Balloons in a foreign park

Shadows of the dance class virgin come apart

Cough in the mirror

I'd forgotten to call

Now that I'm back we should try again to talk

We should try again to talk

We should try again to talk

We should try again to talk

We should try again to talk