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Funny

It's funny what you do to me, and I know funny.

I go up on stage and tell ****** jokes for a living,

           and look super bad *** while doing it.

But now you've got my *** terrified. Paranoid to breathe because I'm afraid it will be my last

          and you won't be there to see it.

Yes, it's cliche. But you do have me listening to love songs, you do have me putting on make up,

          you do have me running up mountains so I can have a body you can enjoy while we make-

          out in your car to Beyonce songs.

You once told me that I "was the more beautiful person to grace this Earth" but Lover, I see your

          grace in everything on this Earth.

And snow makes me smile because you like to ski and I'm from Canada so my face hurts

         frequently.

Trench mapped hands, a sign of how many battles you've fought and won, how many battles

         you've fought and lost, how many times you've picked yourself up off the dirt, smiled at me

         and said "I'm fine, are you okay?"

Honestly, I have no idea how the most flawed person in the world, a girl who leaves her wet

          towels everywhere, a girl who puts her keys in the same place but manages to forget where

          they are, a girl who plays Assassin's Creed for 3 hours without blinking and wears that like a

          proud Metal Of Honor, how can that girl make the most perfect person in the work happy?

Answer? I have no clue, but you don't have to cheat on any test, because I'll stay. As long as you

          want me to, I'll stay.

Here for you when you get weepy, or angry, or curious to see what we can do behind closed doors.

I won't say "I love you". Not because it's not true. Nothing could be more true. But if I say it, I'll cry,

           You'll kiss me, and I can't guarantee what will happen to our clothes after that.

So instead, I'll keep making the "that's what she said" jokes, until you're reminded of snow, or

            maps, or breathing.

And I have fallen so hard for you that stone boarders between countries couldn't stop your

           gravitational pull.

And like willow tree roots growing into shorelines, I get wetter every time you hold me.

So, I'll send you Steven King length facebook messages everyday.

I'll ring up my phone bill to $500.

Light candles for 3 hour skype dinners.

Because, long distance relationships are hard, but not being able to call you "mine" is excruciating.

Because, it's funny what you do to me.

Because, I love funny.

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Written by
hayley-simpson
Canadian
Published
Sep 3, 2012
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Notes

Performed at The Bowery Poetry Club (2012)

Author: This poem was written for my girlfriend while I was touring the States. It was the first poem I ever wrote for her and the first poem I ever performed in public.

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