Thursday 12 October 2023

Remembering That Time (An answer song)

(An answer to Regina Spektor's song That Time. You should really listen to it.)

Whatever did you do with that human tooth you found down on Delancey?
I won't forget the time we kissed anywhere except the mouth
I thought your favourite colours were always pink and green
I remember your fad of only eating tangerines
What were you thinking?
Tangerines!

I remember the time you'd only read Shakespeare. Even Titus Andronicus.
And that time you only read the backs of cereal boxes. Just what is riboflavin?
I try to forget about you and that pigeon with the broken wing
It seemed the whole block was watching as you buried bits of it in that children's playground
We had to leave the next week
I can't believe you weren't sick

I remember something about you wanting to stand for parliament
I thought there was a time when you only wanted to live in Marlborough
Wasn't there a time when you had an obsession with camels?
I remember when you were broke and bummed off our friends
You were broke a lot back then
We lost quite a few of our friends
Bum...

I don't remember the time when I OD'ed
I don't wanna remember the time I OD'ed for the second time
I heard you shouting from the waiting room
I didn't know you thought you could read my mind
Is that why you got clean?
Is that why you left me? 

Tuesday 10 October 2023

Thank You for the Roses

'Slow down' they say
'Take time out,
Stop and smell the roses'

But it seems to me 
that only works
for people with functioning noses