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We sat outside at the picnic table, drinking beer and smoking cigarettes. I asked you to take out your barrettes, you said yeah, and as you glanced up, Your hair danced up and down. I smiled, you got shy, you said "don't smile" I said "why", you said "just don't" I said "okay, I won't" And I smiled. And your skin caught like wildfire, like there was no need for the sun, You placed a finger on my cheek, you said "that had to be done" You carved something like a comma And I wondered what would come. We went inside, I pet your cat, you said "I think she’s lonely, I think she needed that" I said "are you lonely too?" You said, "no girl, that kind of talk won't do" You said "the futon's kind of lumpy, but the bed's pretty smooth" And then I thought about her laughing heart and all the tears that make us grow And I looked into your smiling eyes and all the lines that take me so, so, So much further than I intended to go. I said "thanks for the bed I think the lumps will have to do" You said "it’s better that way" I said "yeah, I think so too..." And then I thought about her laughing heart and all the lines that make it And I tucked that heart into the cradle of my brain cause I'd never want to break it. But I still picture your hair sometimes, dancing all wild in the dark I still wonder about that comma carved so curiously hard and sweet. And yeah, sometimes I finish that sentence you left there on my cheek. Cause you know us poets, We like our moments complete. |