Coffee Teeth

She found me watching the weeds fight the pavement

Receiving the world through a hole in my shoe

The only time she ever looks down

Is to flip over the pennies she's found

Heads up to make some luck for God knows who

I thought that was pretty cool

We sleep like spoons in a drawer

And kiss like we're going to war

Fighting over sides of the bed like cats in heat

She sings in sepia tone

Guessing rhymes on the radio

Makes me feel pretty when I've got coffee teeth

She invites attention like a house on Christmas

Still hanging decorations from Halloween

Santa hats on skeletons and

Blacks cats bleached out white in the sun

The neighbors stop to stare at my winter queen

Oh boy she does it for me

We sleep like spoons in a drawer

Afternoons making love like its war

Nap until 10 PM breakfast with drinks

Fake proposals at lunch

Free dessert with a wink and a nudge

Spin away laughing like some Hollywood scene

She sweetly apologizes

When she bumps inanimate objects

I'm alway proselytizing

Giving her my latest complex

Its all a joke and its all holy

We can't agree on Sunday morning

She says saying nothing loudly

Doesn't mean that you've said something

And she's probably right

I'm the dark that frames her candlelight

We sleep like spoons in a drawer

And kiss like we're going to war

Fighting over sides of the bed like cats in heat

She sings in sepia tone

Guessing rhymes on the radio

Makes me feel pretty when I've got coffee teeth

Spin away laughing like some Hollywood scene

She hits me in the middle of the night like a fever dream