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she's a latter day saint, but she's a saturday sinner, suicide sunday desserts for weekends drinking her dinner, the worry keeps her slender, the pills keep her awake, her man can't make her happy, but he helps to still the shakes, met her boyfriend at the bar, said he'd stick to beer, said i could keep the cocktails, martinis taste like tears, i asked if he would leave her, what with all the grief, he passed the pitcher back to me and asked what i believe, i said virginity is a childhood disease, and these days it seems have interest in the addict thief, patience for the epigrammatic, the brief, there's only four ways to acquire, anyone who says different is a salesman or a liar, you can find it, earn it, make it or steal it, i haven't found a single way to keep it, cause you can leash it, it'll leave, you can teach it to stay and it'll leave, you can case and display it, decay and waste it away, and day by day it leaves you by degrees, he put his hand on my knee, sometimes that's what it takes, he doesn't make me happy, but he helps to still the shakes, put all your words away, for all the noise you make, you were always safe, you were always, you were always, you were always safe, with me, safe in sleep, congratulations to the dry eyes, and consolations to the nice guys, and condensation's on the underside of everything i touch, i seem to chill the objects that i meant so much to love, a man can keep you sane five-hundred-and-fifty days, a year-and-a-half, give or take an afternoon, we should have sooner left the train, but we made it, i guess that makes us the survivors, tumor blooming in my brain: i hate it, but it makes the colors brighter, so fight the anesthesia, spite the man that leaves ya, like the sad disease you contracted while sitting boring and bored, come back from the lab report, is a nervous disorder, only the rich are afforded, only the rich are afforded, only the rich are afforded, put all your words away, for all the noise you make, you were always safe, you were always, you were always, you were always safe, with me, safe in sleep