Roberta C. - Casiotone For The Painfully Alone

Carson, Flannery and Jerome line the bookshelves at home

Waiting tables in some café to pay my student loans

If they didn’t make me sneeze, I’d get a cat and name her Eloise

Someone to talk to in the least

A listless intellectual in her prime

Scrabble high score: 409

With nothing remarkable to leave behind

Smoking lights, working nights

And frequent trips to the public library

Don’t make much of a life

But it’s all going to change

Maybe tonight

I’m leaving something

To remember me by

A listless intellectual in her prime

Scrabble high score: 409

And the note on the bed

True love is hard to find