update
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“nobel prize” - the delicate esses
tonight i’ll fly to sweden
and darling i’ll be leaving you behind
but i’ll wish i was back home
when i land in stockholm
with a heavy heart and thoughts of you on my mind
scandinavia’s cold and dreary
curse my excellence in quantum theory
oh how i long to be back in tennessee
where your lips are ships i sail upon
eyes are stars to guide me home
for you, my love, i’ll cross the baltic sea
and when them other fellas
come calling at your door
i hope you’ll think of me if only just once more
should you grace them with your favor
i won’t think you unkind
i gave my heart to you, it’s yours to leave behind
the ex significant other followed by ice cream. I didn’t know how to behave, but I did know that I wanted to hug her and smell her.
today I changed the busted headlight bulbs, replaced the toilet flusher apparatus and put new light bulbs in the ceiling fan. I’d like to think that she’d admire me for trying to make my life brighter. but she’s probably too busy to care. and even if she did notice she would be unimpressed by me fixing broken things, because grown-ups are supposed to do that shit anyway.
he wakes up to a negative balance in his bank account. in the evening he drives through traffic in darkness courtesy of two busted headlights. almost hits a cat.
he calls her. no answer. now he is alone and watching lost.