Desert Motel #1

I remember you well in the desert motel

You were naked, your hair was still wet

At the foot of the bed, with the mirror overhead

And the shape of your soft silhouette

I can picture you best in a pussybow dress

Knots of nylon chiffon at the neck

I remember champagne, and the taste of cocaine

Too impatient to fully undress

I kissed you goodbye

The softest apocalypse

I'm surprised that we survived

A victimless crime

Leave this ambiguous

Leave no fingerprints behind

And leave no loose ends untied

With your share of the rent and your boyfriend's consent

We spent weeks in those cheap rented beds

But now you send your regrets from the Chelsea address

I guess I misunderstood what you said

Well, I'm the first to confess that I tend to forget

And my memory's subjective at best

But I felt what you felt in the desert motel

And I've come back to pay my respects

And what's left behind?

A phone full of photographs

From the year I nearly died

But no corpse no crime

Leave inconspicuous

Leave no fingerprints behind

Leave no witnesses this time