Polaroids

<br>S. colvin<br><br><br><br>Please no more therapy<br><br>Mother take care of me<br><br>Piece me together with a<br><br>Needle and thread<br><br>Wrap me in eiderdown<br><br>Lace from your wedding gown<br><br>Fold me and lay me down<br><br>On your bed<br><br>Or liken me to a shoe<br><br>Blackened and spit-shined through<br><br>Kicking back home to you<br><br>Smiling back home<br><br>Singing back home to you<br><br>Laughing back home to you<br><br>Dragging back home to you<br><br><br><br><br><br>I was so wary then<br><br>The ugly american<br><br>Thinner than oxygen<br><br>Tough as a whore<br><br>I said you can lie to me<br><br>I own whats inside of me<br><br>And nothing surprises me anymore<br><br>But forests in germany<br><br>Kids in the tuileries<br><br>Broken-down fortresses<br><br>In old italy<br><br>And claiming his victory<br><br>Shrouded in mystery<br><br>He went running away with me<br><br><br><br><br><br>Back in our home new york<br><br>Walking these streets forlorn<br><br>We all in our uniforms<br><br>Black and black<br><br>Doing that slouch and jive<br><br>The artist must survive<br><br>Weve got all we need we cried<br><br>And we dont look back<br><br>Thinking we had it made<br><br>Poised for the hit parade<br><br>Knee deep in accolades<br><br>The conceptual pair<br><br>But ever the malcontent<br><br>He left without incident<br><br>Vanished into thin air<br><br><br><br><br><br>Now I am always amazed<br><br>Words can fill up a page<br><br>Pages fill up the days<br><br>Between him and me<br><br>But the vows that we never keep<br><br>From bedrooms to business-speak<br><br>Make me remember how cheap<br><br>Words can be<br><br>And the letters I wrote you of<br><br>Were those of the desperate stuff<br><br>Like begging for love in a suicide threat<br><br>But I am too young to die<br><br>Too old for a lullaby<br><br>Too tired for life on the ledge<br><br><br><br><br><br>But I had a dream last night<br><br>Of lovers who walked the plank<br><br>Out on the edge of time<br><br>Amidst ridicule<br><br>They laughed as they rocked and reeled<br><br>Over the mining fields<br><br>Coming to rest on this ship of fools<br><br>But he just took polaroids<br><br>Of her smile in the light<br><br>Of the dawn of the menacing sky<br><br>And before they went overbaord<br><br>She turned and held up a card<br><br>And it said valentine