By Manet> goddess77@mail.utexas.edu
Date: 26 July 1999

black eyeliner

and now it all comes pouring out
on my way home  a few blocks
i mute my stereo because not even
joni understands me now
i left you in your bed  flushed
with fever  (not caused by me)
god how jealous i am of this fever
it is so close to you  flowing through
your veins  filling your thoughts
fuck   is this love
when i envy your sickness
now i am sure that if you're sick
i'm sicker
the light changes and my thoughts
change    god  i've gotta step back
before i get lost in you
i think of eyeliner and my tight skirt
small talk  no talk  my clothes stripped
away with one glance from a strange man
the college life
man   fuck college life  what's on the tube
i think of you sleeping 
with me beside you
our faces so close together that 
your eyelashes brush my cheek
black eyeliner BLACK EYELINER
a martini from the man across the bar
my girlfriends giggling beside me
lock eyes    look down   look back
this fucking game that cosmo teaches
i think of your eyes  the way they 
stare   your eyes  so full of moon
fuck me   
         gotta find that damn skirt