By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 21 March 2000
Could Be
even as the Cool, Resilient, Independent
Kick Ass Love Veteran sings about heartache
and futility in a voice aching with soul that
comes from too many cigarettes and too much
Jim Beam and too many transient lovers while
keeping both eyes open and wearing a Screw You smirk,
the Soft Wisher Upon Stars is lounging in bed
with only blue light and printed out e-mail and
poems to guide her
(but her fingers are crossed)
(and her heart is burstin')
(and she thinks maybe)
(He has cracked the code)
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