timing isn’'t everything,
but it'’s one thing
that counts.

it's why you're making plans,
for a couple of also-rans,
and why i’'m dizzier than
your ceiling fan-

whose spinning sound,
is playing aloud,
is squealing now,
that turnabout-

is fair bedplay.

whether i’'m rolling over,
or mulling over
the handing over
of power over
every ovary,

i still feel underpaid,
and breathe like i’'m underwater,
'cause i'’m under the weight,
under someone’s daughter,
whose underwear
is under where
we lay.

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kissing you isn’'t everything,
but it’'s one thing
that helps.

07/27/2005

Author's Note: why do i always end up meeting someone special just before i have to move to a different city? grrr....

Posted on 07/27/2005
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