Expired

Sunny smile, beanie baby Drunk and fuzzy, oh so gone Binge on uppers, feeling hazy Won’t even answer your phone When you take them, you feel better Like a bird or star, so free If you cut open your center There’ll be jewels for eyes to see Milk turned sour, by the hour Numbers stamped into your skin Bloom and whither like a flower Limbs in needles and in pins Sucking on it like a candy It stopped feeling like it’s fun Some cheap sh*t, nothing too fancy Makes all of your fingers numb Sitting criss-crossed like in grade school Telling horrors like they’re jokes Didn’t think that she was cruel You said she showed you the ropes Same old, same old, they called it gold I - twelve, and you - fourteen Take advantage, take the high road Choose to not be heard or seen You were youthful when you knew me In our house you were the child Now your body’s all mildewy Didn’t know you’d go expired