By Abogada
Submitted by abogadalbny
Date: 2007 Jul 12
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Party Girl (with apologies to U2)

Giddy with excitement
Always on a natural high
When running away.
It broke my heart
Years ago
When you ran.
And I think of it and you
Because you smiled when you ran
Felt comfortable in flight
Always.
Now, no one has mastered it like me.
You’d be proud
At how fast I run these days, baby.
Perhaps when you marry someone
Even if you don’t have kids
God puts a little of them in your blood
Just to show you how serious He takes marriage;
And, perhaps, as in my case,
To prove that He knew I was sober
When I promised you forever one night
On the Vegas strip
Where even the sixty-dollar preacher
Saw divorce in your eyes
And the hired witness
Missed the whole damned thing
Because she was outside
Smoking a cigarette.