Picture your pain in a plastic pouch Put it away till it’s lost like change in your couch Maybe you’ll miss all this aching Maybe you’ll be better for the loss Maybe you won’t ever really rally past it Maybe your pain is like plastic Elastic and ready to snap back on you Perhaps you can send the couch to the cleaners Perhaps they will take all the pain you were saving Wash it in foamy suds or dry clean it Perhaps you should have just thrown it away