By Misti
Date: 2004 Aug 16
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[[2004.08.16.09.33.30186]]

Practically Speaking

I'll either be living with a crazy man
named Joe in a brown house by the nursery
where you bought the birch tree
because you want me close to you
your piece of crap car
can't be making countless trips
across town
or I'll be living in a cheap furnished apartment
with drug dealer and prostitute neighbors
and broken beer bottles in the parking lot
I won't be living with you
because your roommate and Gomez
would not approve
and believe me baby
I wouldn't want to be your live-in girlfriend
at this point

practically speaking
I will be coming back to you
with six hundred dollars
maybe
at the most
just enough for first month's rent
Geico and gas to get there
and some cans of black-eye peas
maybe a six-pack of Corona
and some Sweettarts

and I have done crazy to death
all my life
running away from home on my little
red tricycle at age three
because my old lady neighbor down the street
always had candy
and I have taken on love
said Pick Me, Pick Me!!!
when all the band-aids in the free world
could not hide my scabs
I have a lot of nerve
the universe rewards that, I tell you
and you love me just enough
to believe me.