Jerry, My Friend

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Like ceramics, buildings tumbling
Sight gags and smokestacks
Shakespeare in Time Square smuggling
Lip gloss and handbags
Wolves on the watch for the pilots and their pistols
The wires sway like the towers above them
Dimebags, daffodils and penny whistles
If this doesn't sound familiar it's because I've never been to New York

The rattle of the rain and the cinnamon whiskey
On the chimney sweeps perspiring forehead
Blisters on his feet, hands of obsidian
The last laugh of a doorman
Revolving as if loaded or on a ferris wheel

Lonely backseat cold
Dramamine and alcohol
Primrose mud-flaps, popsicles
Tell me is there something more than this I should know?
Spliff at the skate park before the show
Rhinestone rifles and rodeos
Crossed state lines for tobacco
Spent the last of my change on a cherry coke-
Ball caps tattered edges
Chipping fingernail paint
Faintly recall that your wrist was sprained

Divets in the pool table fabric
Indented like dimples on a water mattress
Eight ball popped off the edge and chipped on the ground

There's smoke outside and carnivorous
Calendar men with clove cigarettes
Lining the pockets of their jackets next to retired cassettes

Jerry my friend, when will you start signing again?
The drinks have gone warm in the time since you left
Last call's coming and we haven't picked up the check
My chest hurts

Lonely basement cold
Bruises sore on my hip-bones
Arose to the stutter of the stove
Stan's pack was there, but he was gone
Stole a smoke, strolled and talked on the phone
You were scared like a chaperone
I just didn't want to be alone
Returned to locked doors, sat outside and got stoned
The shadows of the flag wrapped like a handkerchief on the headstones

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