I’ll make a mess.
I’ll take it back.
I shouldn’t mess with “girls like that.”
I guess I’m just not living . . .
I guess I’m just not willing
to have this taste fall out of me.
The best revenge is tragedy
& what leads to depending
on staying dumb, pretending
I belong to you.
Sidelines!
Just enough for my time . . .
& she gets the knife!
I’ll make a mess.
Won’t take it back.
I’d love to fuck around like that.
Without sense to be made,
no ransom to be paid
& with a skill like tragedy
the best affair’s fatality
to make the bitter sweet
all that it seems to be.
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