Copyright © 2009 Ernest Bloom.
Your timing's off, darling
Your chain's slipped the sprockets
Living life like one of those girls who
Plots to sell herself for
Love or affection
Like a refugee from too many
High school football games
Hot and sweaty and hormone-addled
Exciting like a stirred hornet nest
On a Friday night
Bulked up young bulls in shoulder pads
Clashing like brutally mindless storm fronts
While the girls out advertising
Competing for salacious eyeballs
Your timing's off, darling
So be about discarding these habitual
Posturings that don't suit you so well
The rest of your life's waiting right here
When you get ready to extend your hand
Brutal, elegant, concise and flowing like the ocean, carrying me to the very end, the last word, the last syllable with a slight tinge of concern for the bimbo being who just can't give up the vanity of youth that just isn't suited for the elderly lady. Many witty phrases here. The exciting like a stirred hornet nest comparison- I think I will include that in my daily conversation dictionary.
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