well because I’m a quote enquote writer
and because I’ve got eyes bigger than my stomach
and lord knows it can swallow just about any explanation
as to why I am here
with you at 4 am
with you at 6 drinks past reason
with you and you - him and her
aaaand me clunk
as there’s a long pause
too long it’s hitting the back of my throat
I’m gagging
and it’s almost like the both of your drunk asses are ganging up on me and pressing down on the back of my neck going “take it! take it!”
and because I am sometimes the I that is saying “I”
in stories talking about very interesting the I that might be I
that is what I am thinking
as I watch you two
a wacky duet needing a narrator
the “I” that I will become
taking the whole scene in at once man
swallow baby
and I’m gulping hard cause
as the eye that is looking around nervously
while you two eye each other
and I see and tomorrow
I will spit out “I” as in
“I see what they don’t cause they’re
too wrapped up in their quote romantic tension enquote moment
that I’m gulping down
I see out the window
weiner boy
who is always sticking it into these
situations at the wrong time
who is not an eye
not I
and they don’t wanna
be seeing him
but this is what I
am here for
so I can talk about it”
and weiner boy
who you
and her
have been discussing as her soon to be ex that I
now know all about and will fill in as a key detail
when I talk about it
weiner boy is coming up the sidewalk
about to serve himself up with all the mustard
and I’m thinking
“Just because
I’m a writer
I’m a fool with little better to do
I’m a third no
fourth wheel
on this little drama vehicle
the one who’s supposed to drive it on home
for the people I will tell
I’m suppose to spread myself all over this scene
and glup myself down
like some cheap meat substitute
for private moments
post-modernists can’t digest
well, spamtime is over
and when he bursts in full of recriminations I can already guess
cause I’m a writer
I will leave”
at least that is what “I”
will tell them that I
thought
well because I’m a quote enquote writer
and because I’ve got eyes bigger than my stomach
and lord knows it can swallow just about any explanation
as to why I am here
with you at 4 am
with you at 6 drinks past reason
with you and you - him and her
aaaand me clunk
as there’s a long pause
too long it’s hitting the back of my throat
I’m gagging
and it’s almost like the both of your drunk asses are ganging up on me and pressing down on the back of my neck going “take it! take it!”
and because I am sometimes the I that is saying “I”
in stories talking about very interesting the I that might be I
that is what I am thinking
as I watch you two
a wacky duet needing a narrator
the “I” that I will become
taking the whole scene in at once man
swallow baby
and I’m gulping hard cause
as the eye that is looking around nervously
while you two eye each other
and I see and tomorrow
I will spit out “I” as in
“I see what they don’t cause they’re
too wrapped up in their quote romantic tension enquote moment
that I’m gulping down
I see out the window
weiner boy
who is always sticking it into these
situations at the wrong time
who is not an eye
not I
and they don’t wanna
be seeing him
but this is what I
am here for
so I can talk about it”
and weiner boy
who you
and her
have been discussing as her soon to be ex that I
now know all about and will fill in as a key detail
when I talk about it
weiner boy is coming up the sidewalk
about to serve himself up with all the mustard
and I’m thinking
“Just because
I’m a writer
I’m a fool with little better to do
I’m a third no
fourth wheel
on this little drama vehicle
the one who’s supposed to drive it on home
for the people I will tell
I’m suppose to spread myself all over this scene
and glup myself down
like some cheap meat substitute
for private moments
post-modernists can’t digest
well, spamtime is over
and when he bursts in full of recriminations I can already guess
cause I’m a writer
I will leave”
at least that is what “I”
will tell them that I
thought
