Keep Me Waiting

Eyes upside-down Face malaise You'll pay for faking feelings Leading false lives Glazed and fever clouded Pinned against the platform pillar Moments frozen and relived The wait is over Step onto the train Shrinking the sun lit up vessels in my shut eyelids Landscape pixelates, flickers and blinks out to nothing Motorboats drone styrofoam The coolers packed with beer and soda Splotchy shadows juke like floaters Splendidly empty The gentlemen came close to caring Lines on my face from the labor of lying to spare you Our city's streetcars with Christmas lights strung on 'em I taste my fever Take in the room I suck your earrings Unfulfilled and scraping by When I fall ill knock off at five Scoot home sped only by a cold wind Stolen passports Pouring rain I couldn't ever feel the same I'm glad I'm back But it's a goddamn bore