Wednesday, August 28, 2024

I am the pizza man June 12, 2012

 



 It’s my own damned fault, 

I think, as I hear John Lennon’s voice

singing, “I Am the Walrus,” 

in my head only I hear it as “pizza man” 

not Eggman, and realize 

I was supposed to another 

of her “working things out fucks,”

 and I turned it into something else,

something ugly, 

something it was never meant to be, 

while I ached for it to be 

something it could never be, 

and realize it is my own damned fault,

 thinking about the playwright 

she wrote about aching to be bad 

if just for one night, 

and turning it into art instead,

 while she was bad and liked it, 

until I ruined it and turned it 

all into something ugly, 

dream turned into nightmare 

we both have to live through 

until maybe someday

 one or both of us wakes up.


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