The Closing Hour for Her
her nail polish made her fingertips look like jade
and she painted watercolor landscapes on her window shades
and she only drank tequila in pink lemonade
but she'd make the saddest man fake a smile
she had extra tall veins popping out of her hands
and she only knew two songs from all her favorite bands
and she'd talk about how much she hated their fans
and the worthlessness of what they call 'style'
she rode the bus every morning and the train every night
she said just because she liked the change of the light
when she wakes the train's boring but going home the bus is bright
and it stings her eyes when she sleeps
she kept all her favorite body parts in little mason jars
her toe nails, skin tags, and parts of her scars
she flossed with piano strings and strummed on guitars
and said, "at least this one gently weeps."
she had bull frogs hopping all around the kitchen
and her aunt lived in the attic and she'd run down bitchin'
about the walls that're moldy and her towel that's gone missin'
and the rust at the end of the hose
and the Mustang in the half shed was forty years old
with a cherry red finish and the edges in gold
and the sign on the windshield said, 'gone but not sold'
but she knows that everything goes
