Phone Call

Phone Call                August 27th 2007


The need to be right
And to be innocent

Feeling very uncomfortable
With anyone else’s reality
If it conflicts
With the need to be right
And innocent.

Turn things around
Stand them on their heads
Remonstrate and reprove with all nobility
To reinforce
The need to be right
And innocent

Erase
Rephrase
Backtrack
Edit life then
Until it all agrees
With the need--
The right to be right
And to be innocent

Your dirty laundry
My bloody scratches
But I have no right to be real
And you have every right
To expect my good manners
To save your honor and your face

Impossible life.