Vanishing Twin - Kristin Hersh

I feel the tug of war

I fight the fight

But I don’t have the patience

Or the stamina to last one night

With color mad candy mouth you

Your reputation lives

In spite of me

Your platitudes and berzerk theories

Super real fantasy

That infuriating

Vanishing twin

He has metal bones and a wild eyed stare

I’m thinking feigning interest

Badly like a liar

And then he blows me away

And then all I want is

A room and you

The urban hillside glinting copper

In the morning

A broken spell

Alive and well

That’s the way the cookie bounces

In spite of me

I hate clever sons of bitches

Who can’t leave a girl alone

To rot in peace