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[greenstorm]

The Jerk by Jeffrey McDaniel

Hey you, dragging the halo-
how about a holiday in the islands of grief?

Tongue is the word I wish to have with you.
Your eyes are so blue they leak.

Your legs are longer than a prisoner's
last night on death row.

I'm filthier than the coal miner's bathtub
and nastier than the breath of Charles Bukowski.

You're a dirty little windshield.

I'm standing behind you on the subway,
hard as calculus. My breath
be sticking to your neck like graffiti.

I'm sitting opposite you in the bar, waiting
for you to uncross your boundaries.

I want to rip off your logic
and make passionate sense to you.

I want to ride in the swing of your hips.

My fingers will be digging up in you like quotation marks,
blazing your limbs into parts of speech.

But with me for a lover, you won't need
catastrophes. Because the same things that
attracted me in the first place,
will ultimately make me resent you.

I'll start telling you lies, and my lies will sparkle,
become the bad stars you chart your life by.

I'll stare at other women so blatantly,
you'll hear my eyes peeling.

Because sex with you is like Great Britain:
cold, groggy, and a little uptight.
Your bed is a big, soft calculator
where my problems multiply.

Your brain is a garage
I park my bullshit in, for free.

And you're not really my new girlfriend,
just another flop sequel of the first one,
who was based on the true story of my mother.

You're so ugly I forgot how to spell!
I'll cheat on you like a ninth grade math test.
And break your heart just for the sound it makes.

You're the this we need to put an end to.
The more you apologize, the less I forgive you.

So, how about it? You, me, and a bucket of cafe ole?

Comments

Emotional unavailability makes me hot

[koppermoon.livejournal.com]

But you just have to love these lines:

I want to rip off your logic
and make passionate sense to you.

Re: Emotional unavailability makes me hot

[greenstorm.livejournal.com]

And you're not really my new girlfriend,
just another flop sequel of the first one,
who was based on the true story of my mother.

and

Your bed is a big, soft calculator
where my problems multiply.

[whimsicalzephyr.livejournal.com]

That was great.

[greenstorm.livejournal.com]

*grin*

Yeah.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

One of my greatest moments of poetry was being dragged onstage to read that with a freind of mine. Thank you for the memory. It was cherished, but dusty.