A Few Confessions

Dayna Kurtz Rise and Fall A Few Confessions Sometimes asleep I dream I'm in love with other men With a genius, with a stranger Once with your best friend And in every one I'm happy And excited and ashamed Do you mind I belong in lots of places But not where these rivers meet With people stacked on people Stacked on metal and concrete Though it has the grandest dreamers That ever hurried across a street) Do you mind I copy I paste I'm bad I'm a loser And Romeo next door is crying again He's a tundra dog who hates the cold Chimes tumble off the pavement And the screen is coming loose again It's old I never was a cool kid Socializing grinds me down And I knew I'd be a grumbler Since my boots first hit the ground And since you could've charmed the trendy skirt Off of any girl in town Do you mind In our teeny little garden December stole my blooms And it shuttered out the sunlight In our cluttered living room And I wish I was in Texas Or new england or rangoon Do you mind