As long as I can dodge a bullet,

I'll be alright.

The issue is, I don't know how to fool it-

So there's only failure in my sight.

If anyone could give me some advice,

on how to ease a troubled soul,

why, that'd be nice.

I freak out over the simplest of manners

And I think it's just me,

but I can tell it's a widely known thing.

So every time the sheriff calls

I crawl into a ball and cry

And as all of those tears fall,

I often don't understand why.

Baby if you call me at 4 am,
Too sad to even say hello,
I will listen to your sadness,
Until you fall asleep.

To forget what sand had stirred
in the dark of night.

To empty the dregs left stagnant
of yesterday’s wine.

To see as though through lenses
brand new.

To discard the tethers that had
bound us tight, skin to spine.

A guy can count, when he runs, on his biggest right-foot toe, just as
I counted on you camper-crammer Breanna, 15 little boyfriends ago

When peace is declared, my mistress will put away her war nuggets
for good, because as she aches for a half foot of timber I will slip to
her my thrill-hammering, impregnating, baby-broth-squirting wood.