when we first broke up
I’d only just make it home fall to my knees the cat would brush against my legs howl in the hallway I'd turn on the ABC news Charles Manson was dead the neighbour wants to borrow a Phillips head screwdriver David Cassidy's croaked it too a Jehovah's Witness bangs on the door offering me God, three cans of black and gold baked beans and a long-stemmed rose
when we first broke up
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my cat broke first
followed by
my car broke down
then I got the flu
I lost my fucking job
but when she left
I was already going
Ah, divine justice - when she left, I was already going :)
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