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I Bought A Rose From The Guy At The Traffic-Lights

I bought a rose from the guy at the traffic-lights, but only for the
thorn. I pressed it as hard as
I could into my palm as I rode across town to your place. A church bell
rings like it’s just going
through the motions, kind of like me and my life. It’s like I’ve always
lived in mourning,
Though for what I couldn’t say….
When you spoke your words tumbled through the air like tossed dice and
lay there on the felt,
You said ‘The world is just the world, let’s go buy pancakes from the
princess
with the mole on her cheek’.
So I sulk over a lukewarm lunch served up by some Valkyrie,
And you all bracelets and suntanned arms and the street outside
dissolving in sunlight….
When I used to wonder about how our lives would pan out it was always
the two of us together,
But I’ve known a long, long time you’re seeing this married guy, and the
thing is
it somehow just don’t matter. And when we fuck it’s like we’re just
hustling to come,
We should’ve broke up maybe years ago. And tonight you had a nosebleed
on your white crêpe top
I said I’d miss you but you didn’t answer …..







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