By chris
Date: 2004 May 03
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everybody loves saturday night

"we left the ground and we floated above this town that never got better
we got drowned in the sea of love and i know that it's gonna get wetter"

(frank black)


you're a fucking animal
girl
and i mean that in both senses of the term
each good
and you bite
hard
when you're excited
which is often
which is new
and will take
some getting used to
but
like the starving man
at the chinese
buffet
thinking of setting records
oh baby
you make this skinny white boy
crave more than seconds

our saturdays kick ass
i say
we order overpriced dinner
and push it out of the way
hardly eaten
then live blues
at your favorite
semi-classy dive
on san pedro
and paseo
while i remember austin
and moments lost
and by your fourth drink i think maybe
i know you
your hair bleached by the sun
of this
brightest new mexico
that kisses us both
now
and you ask what i'm thinking
and i know i can't tell you
or even form it all
into one intelligible
sentence

all i can do
is look at you there
my short girl
on the tall barstool
green eyes catching the light
breaking more hearts than you'll
ever realize
biting your lower lip
because you're happy and dreaming
again

finally all of it ends up
in the west mesa dark
and your bedroom
our holy temple
of the immaculate fuck
what luck
being born
on this doomed rock
in space
what grace
you give by way
of just
being on it
with me

alone
the drive home is always fast
frank black
and the catholics
sing loudly of bad harmony
and city lights strung out
from here
seemingly
to juarez
and all the other places you've visited
but don't remember
a thing about