If you really need to know
That I once broke a leg
Which I desperately
Needed to get
From A to be
Myself begging
For little coins of isolation
On a day just like today
Standing around on these
Two all of a sudden
Very solitary legs
When the tenth
Came with big truth shoe
That I dragged back
From the hospital’s
Ball and chain contraption
The fresh cast
Unlike a recent divorce
Holding me back
From flying over clouds
Wireless way before the day
And sowing words
All through the night
Alcohol, sex, drugs
Of course I never wrote Angel
And then just naught
I slowly begun spending
More breathe asking
At times even begging
For just the sample of a chance
To wait it all out
So different was the eleventh
That I found someone I’d lost
Stumbled onto someone
On her way back to the bridge
Under which others
Just like us sleep
I broke in my address
To her makeshift tent
Twice the following twelfth
She buzzed ding! Dring!
My concentration off cue
Somewhere to the left
There were so many maple leaves
All bleeding on the sidewalks
That the calendar broke loose
While in a pose longing
To give her soul she stood
At my door’s desperate brink
Hoping for understanding
And maybe a little more
Of what only soon I would surmise
Then on the thirteenth
It was all to be elapsed
As I woke to her underwear
In the sink
She had slipped away
With my credit cards
And the rest of the scotch
So I drank the fourteenth
Away sopping like a stray
In my own perishable prison
Until she called me
From this bar
Where we now hold hands
Like spies sharing secrets
So unless you call about
Something serious
Just leave a message
I’ll get back to ya!!!
