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shortchanged

you rock my heart –
funky, nasty, irregular, but precise.
louis johnson, larry graham. better yet stanley clarke

hear your voice and i feel my pulse, that beat—
in every nerve ending… sending… me.
frustrated that it’s a only a treat.

sorry i say what i feel, but not what i think.
sometimes my heart is as polarized as my mind.
force feeding my mouth to spew shit before i can blink.

i don’t want a ring, no bling, no promise of forever.
a cigar band would do -- give me today, next weekend.
can’t roll with that though. this chokehold, i got to sever.

so what’s with the velvet rope around your heart?
you eat my pussy and i suck your dick.
it’s a shame. we can’t get past start.

i keep wondering am i easy.
you made me wet from the get. yet--
we don't flow. why can't we be free and breezy?

you tell me i'm beautiful. but clearly it's not enough.
so beauty is bullshit. i need voodoo, mojo. something.
because i'm riding bareback. and the stroke is rough.

i’m standing at the gates of your soul.
and i don’t know the fucking password.
it’s like you got chicago SWAT on soul patrol.

i can date from now til i go to hell.
got mo nigga’s trying to get at me than i can count.
but my heart is in lockdown. can’t leave this cell.

can’t get that first date out of my head.
and the second and the third and the fourth.
and how quickly my heart capsized and bled.

i think about the trips we never took.
my plans to wear thigh high fishnets, CFM pumps and a silk slip friday night.
how much i wanted to sip my martini and watch you cook.

but i was dreaming again. my eyes wide open – awake.
because i don’t sleep. i toss and turn, refuse to take a pill.
my eyes are bloodshot. this jonesing i got to shake.

i wrote this to say i was sorry for every evil word.
that’s not me. it’s the other side of janus.
when i look at you baby, my vision is blurred.

vttb 2006

Tags: love, pain

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