I Used to Be Someone

Fix your eyes at middle distance

Rich queens, fur fezes, twin ridiculous

Avenue of the Americas

Between 45 and 46

Debt clock married to its uptick

A trillion brilliant blinking digits

Oh, the overwhelming evidence

Incontrovertible and elegant

Compartmentalize to make sense

Of the arranged marriage of opposites

As risen high as it is bottomless

Here in the playground of the fabulous

Quit second-guessing out your window

Can't see 2000 through your telescope

Leave 10 years ago 10 years ago

Get back within yourself and listen close

I came here dignified and dainty

But I don't feel much like that lately

Two left feet and gloves full up with thumbs

"Aw shucks" and "pardon me" and "sorry, love"

So tomorrow if you meet me

In my tangle of apology

Rest assured, I used to be someone

A brother's brother and a mother's son