By slug
Date: 14 September 2000

My Day in Court

Everyone gets their day in court.
Well today is mine!
I stand here,
   charged with being...what?
                         A woman?
                         In Love?
       And you're asking how I plead?
GUILTY!
Yes, I am a woman.
Yes, I am in love.
Yes.....
         I have acted badly.

But you see-
             give the defense a turn-
                       to cross examine
                                question
                                defend...
I have been neurotic.
        I have been clingy.
                I have done things to enslave him...

but you see-
             he never loved me.
and i never wanted to lose him.
                     none of it worked, though, so
Do Your Worst!

Prosecute me, and
     know that my
          time in purgatory
will be nothing
        compared
     to the heart he held so carefully...

it will be nothing
           compared
       to the way it felt
           as he smiled
              and
                  ripped it to shreds.
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