Every night, right around Beer number 4, With the beginning Of the Daily Show Airing on the tv At the foot of my bed, I look out my window Diagonally to the left Out onto the street that Is dark because the city Hasn't fixed the streetlight Yet, even though it's Summer and I'd like To think that the kids Walking the streets With their hoods pulled Up could be able To have some light To blow their smoke by.
Anyway, I look out my Window diagonally To the left Every night And I see a 1995 Rust spotted grey Oldsmobile 88 Pull into the driveway Of the green Double level house With the ugly Maroon shutters And then the same Woman climbs out In her scratched Half inch heels She bought at the savers On route 44 And this night she's Wearing her pale blue Conservative skirt And a delightful Vertical striped Button up Office building secretary shirt With the mix of cool colors And her brown hair is Pulled back in a tight Bun that's been tugging At her forehead for The eight hours she sat At her desk and the Six hours she waited tables At the ****** chain sports Bar on Branch ave For ****** tips And ****** looks From ****** drunk perverts She has to smile at And flirt with if She wants to make rent At the green double Level house with the ugly Maroon shutters.
She checks her mail box And with weary eyes Scans the envelopes Of bills and spam and third notices No letters from friends Or family or old school suitemates And she goes inside To reheat her dinner for one And I lay here in my boxers Cracking open beer number Four and listening To Jon Stewart point out the Obvious absurdities In our ****** up system That everyone seems not To notice and take as Just jokes on a fake News program but are Really symptoms Of a ******* society That puts value in all The wrong places And as I sip on Rolling rock number five And watch the woman across The dark street fumble with Her keys I think about How lonely it is here in my One bedroom apartment And how lonely it is there In her one bedroom apartment And I wish oh I wish One of these nights I could Stand outside and smoke A cig and wait And when she gets home Ask her how work Was and laugh when She jokes that it was terrible And know its not a joke Because it was terrible And I'll ask her if she has any Late night plans Knowing she will tune into The Colbert Report And watch until she Falls asleep in her full Size bed And if she smiles and says No I'll ask her to come over And have a drink and if She says yes I'll give her An Octoberfest because Harpoon is classier Than rolling rock And then maybe she'll Want another one And maybe she'll see Something in me.
As I open rock number six Every night the same thought Breaks through the cloud, That if I could just do What I want to do Maybe this bed wouldn't be So big and maybe This heart wouldn't hang So heavy and maybe The tv would have an audience Instead of a solitary observer.
I fall asleep again Having never learned Her name or which high School she went to Or what makes her laugh Or what sad movies she Loves to cry along with Or which secluded areas She likes to go to to think Or what she thinks about me.