By Misti
Date: 2002 Jun 14
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[[2002.06.14.21.25.4395]]

Bricks

"And when they've given you their all,
Some stagger and fall.
After all it's not easy,
Banging your heart against some mad bugger's
wall."
~Roger Waters

am I guilty of false advertisement?
no.
I am guilty of many things
but you knew me fully
before you flew me
to New York.
you read my poems
the poems about you
the poems about him
the poems about how to ride out crazy
on a Saturday night in Bum Fuckin' Egypt.
you thought I was complicated...
I wasn't so complicated, really.
All I wanted was for once in my life
to be fully invaded by a man
I wanted/needed/loved/lusted/respected
who wanted/needed/loved/lusted/respected me.
I wanted too much too soon.
we talked for hours on the phone
I told you all about my terrible history
with the opposite sex
my messed up childhood
all the residue
all the dressed up and nowhere to go
"oh my man I love him so" blues
the booze
how I broke a bottle of wine in the sink
and drank it
and wrote poems about brightly colored fish
how I wish we could go back there
to our Eden
revisit all the midnight conversations
it was new
and sweet
and I would go to sleep looking at your
pictures taped to my dresser mirror.
I wanted to be good for you.
I wanted to be wholly yours.
I wanted you to be the one to invade me.

now it's down all around me.
I've disappointed you.
Broken your heart again.
I've been breaking your heart for years.
You and my mom say,"Find a church. Say your prayers."
I don't have anything to say to that god.
I know the verses. I know that a woman of
virtue is worth more than rubies.
I know I'm a bad Bathsheba.
you say you never believed in Satan
but you believe in him now.
I don't know how to break a man's heart
in a decent way.
I've never had the honor
until now.

your life would be so much better and easier
without me
please let me go
before I destroy us
both.