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By Misti Date: 2003 Oct 19 Comment on this Work [[2003.10.19.03.42.17718]] |
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lately I've had too much time to think about love all the love I've given away all the love I've never received all the love I thought was love but was really wishful thinking gussied up in lust & fantasy lately I've contemplated what I know of love and what love knows of me love knows I have climbed the most trees and dug the most holes love knows I've kept a vigil guarding the sacred crystal I hung on his doorknob while he went to the zoo to be with her love knows I looked down the alley and saw the giant and didn't run love knows I learned the songs and sang them while he slept beside me dreaming of psychedelic paint swirled carousels and screaming circuses love knows I took a number and stood in line in dusty bare feet squinting at the sun love knows I spun around in mad circles and collapsed a dizzy girl in faded blue jeans love knows I sent the most perfumed lipsticked letters Chase in Korea Chase in England the blonde tennis player in West Virginia the Loyola grad student in Chicago Jay in Arlington Jay in Kerrville Jay in Corpus Christi God in Heaven I've made the rounds love won't leave me alone love keeps huffing and puffing at my straw house but I'm not complaining really love makes me sick but so does too much candy and I'll always be an advocate of too much candy and any time it's craved I'll get a job at the Nokia factory I'll work the graveyard shift I'll work overtime weekends holidays when the factory is open I'll be there but you know on my lunch break I'll be thinking about love especially the love I have never had and desperately want so bad I can taste it |