Written by
Maggie Estep |
Liner Notes - (from No More Mister Nice Girl)
I was having a foul day.
Some
geezer harrassed me on the street and I got completely bent out of shape,
but the guy was huge so I just stuffed my retort.
Went home to drink
coffee.
No milk.
I ripped through the cupboards and found Non Dairy Creamer.
It tasted like ****.
I got into one of those senseless rages where you
throw stuff.
I hurled the Non Dairy Creamer and it fell into the tub where
I was running some bath water.
The creamer erupted and made this bathing
gel of Non Dairy Creamer.
I was ready to kill myself.
Instead I wrote Hey
Baby.
So I'm walking down the street
minding my own business
when this guy starts with me
he's suckin' his lips goin'
Hey Baby
Yo Baby
Hey Baby
Yo
and I get a little tense and nervous
but I keep walking
but the guy, he's dogging my every move
hey Miss, he says,
Don't miss this!
And he grabs his crotch and sneers ear to ear
so finally, I turn around
Hey Buddy, I say
I'm feelin' kinda tense, Buddy
I got a fuckin' song in my heart
so come on,
Let's go
I got a huge bucket of non-dairy creamer
and some time to kill
so let's do it
we'll make some foul-smelling artifical milk
and drink gallons and gallons and gallons of it
Get our bladders exceedingly full then
sit on the toilet together and let
the water run in the shower
and torture ourselves by not letting ourselves urinate
as the water rushes loudly
into the bathrub, okay?
We'll do it together
writhe in utter agony
Just you and me
and I'll even spring for some of that blue ****
for the toilet bowl, all right?
I mean, that's my idea of a good time
so how bout it, you wanna?
The guy backs up a bit
Whatsa matter, Baby?
You got somethin' against men?, he says
No, I say
I don't have anything against men
Just STUPID men
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Written by
David Lehman |
He woke up in New York City on Valentine's Day,
Speeding.
The body in the booth next to his was still warm,
Was gone.
He had bought her a sweater, a box of chocolate
Said her life wasn't working he looked stricken she said
You're all bent out of shape, accusingly, and when he
She went from being an Ivy League professor of French
To an illustrator for a slick midtown magazine
They agreed it was his fault.
But for now they needed
To sharpen to a point like a pencil the way
The Empire State Building does.
What I really want to say
To you, my love, is a whisper on the rooftop lost in the wind
And you turn to me with your rally cap on backwards rooting
For a big inning, the bases loaded, our best slugger up
And no one out, but it doesn't work that way.
Like the time
Kirk Gibson hit the homer off Dennis Eckersley to win the game:
It doesn't happen like that in fiction.
In fiction, we are
On a train, listening to a storyteller about to reach the climax
Of his tale as the train pulls into Minsk, his stop.
That's
My stop, he says, stepping off the train, confounding us who
Can't get off it.
"You can't leave without telling us the end,"
We say, but he is already on the platform, grinning.
"End?" he says.
"It was only the beginning.
"
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