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Non-negotiables

It's because I get tangled, you see? Got used to being alone Still love being alone, in fact Makes no never mind to how much I'm diggin' on you but you're an awfully cute monkey wrench in my me time Hope this isn't one of those non-negotiables in things like this Up there with cigarettes, dead cats and still living with parents 'Cause if I had to see anyone every day I'd be locked up quicker than a Trekkie at a Star Wars convention Kept alone on purpose, needed to unravel those dark imaginings Needed to figure out how I got so tangled for so long Got it mostly smoothed out these days, all the limbs laying about in proper order and along you came with a New Year's swagger and trouble on your lips, and now I'm factoring in you time, too I get tangled up still, like I am right now And I deal with it alone, laying out every confusing thought and feeling and word and limb like colored bits of yarn Ordering and sorting and figuri