Birthday - bulldog eyes

Up 'til four A.M.

again

You’re waking up at 2 P. M

I think there’s something weird about you

The voices in the dark surround you

In hospitals, in hospitals

The lights are humming dim and dull

A working life has no appeal

You’re drunk behind the steering wheel

You drive to San Francisco

On the morning of your birthday

And things are getting better in the worst of ways

The bug inside your ear

Is like a swollen reminder

That your broken little Volvo

Has a little broken driver

The journals that you throw away

Tell little funny stories

In ugly black pen drawings

Of distorted lover’s bodies

And you will go back home

To find a town you don’t remember

You’d lie still for no one but for him you’d surrender