By Misti
Date: 2004 Dec 09
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[[2004.12.09.13.01.8182]]

Nerve

the nerve of Christine Jackson
telling you last summer not to take me back
telling you night before last
we hurt her feelings
and took advantage of her Christ-like nature
so one e-mail from me
shut her up for good
(ding dong the witch is dead)
the nerve of my maternal grandmother
telling me last summer
when I was at the mercy of my family
to throw away my books because I had
too many
and to never buy another book
again
so we spent the fifty dollars she sent
on books and dollar store luxuries and Wendy's
not gas and groceries as she suggested

talk about the budget and your condition
and our ex-roommate
brought us down
I told you I was going to soak in a bubblebath
with my new JANE magazine and forget who I was
for thirty minutes
you crawled up to the doorway
to tell me as you often do
that you love me and are so grateful

then in bed we looked through the nerve.com
sex book with cheesy photographs
(a naked guy with a boner mowing the lawn)
I laughed my ass off at the ridiculous wordplay
you got horny
I was too amused
so you did your thing
and after it was over
told me we're still paying for last summer's
phone sex
marathons.