IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME

a swelling strain a violin
so oddly bohemian and wonderfully reckless
i the flint-like you the steel
the spark an explosion, emotion of wonder
how you knew that i could be
all you needed you knew
but you turned broken twitching blindly back
to your cleopatra and her patronizing penciled-in gaze
an unreal holly but i once knew mussolini
you were late where you been did she win
i tend, i play the fool
right down to the battered gestation
tissues of the staring sun
making creating me, quietly hating me
yeah they lied but they wanted you to
and anyway you can't get tired of a thing
before you have it.