Rainbows and tin cans and stars
all tied behind Honeymoon cars
launched into the great pretend
marriage lasts beyond our end.
Ugly time demands cruel tolls.
Lawyers find easy loopholes.

Do with it what you will.
  Ignore it. Glance at it briefly.
  Bleed inside it. Die within it.
  Find solace or rage in a single line.
  I give it to you with no strings.
  It can be a fist or a cup of tears.
  You might find a bit of you there.
  Hate it. Love it. It belongs to you.

I tear my face off and give
you one you'll fancy for love.
I build my body however
you want if you'll desire me.
I can pour gasoline on me
and burn to a seed if you
will plant me within you
inside your secret garden.

Youth's grand promises
  begin to yellow and fade
  my hair thins and belly
  grows. I'm finally afraid.
  I buy condoms and ******
  a Corvette and a toupee.
  I go to a discotheque meet
  a Queen. I am a gray gay.

Betrayed by our evil lords
invaded by foreign hordes
in Cady Lake neighborhood.
We did best that we could.
The gun safes all unlocked.
Shotgun and whiskey cocked.
Armed to the teeth we wait
to finally learn our fate.

In my cups I said grace at supper
on bar stools and raucous laughter
with my dreams hiding inside fog.
I lived inside the neon signs.
Will I know normal? I'll kiss you
when I've had a hair of the dog.

I saw you on my horizon.
I drank to your health.
I went to AA and confessed.
Skunk coffee and stale donuts
shaking sweat and smoking
an endless chain of cigarettes.

Look at these dames
  set hearts in flames
  they toast their boys
  use war's cruel toys
  bring us home a win
  we'll carry on again.
  Our men were buried.
  We never married.