Fall is Falling

It seemed like a good idea

She was 23 with a book deal

Aren’t some fantasies allowed to be real?

The exceptional ideal

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Though I really hoped it

We are not the same

Fall is falling

You’re not calling my name

My friends said i miscalculated

I thought they were sexually frustrated

We all might have necks and backs aggravated

But that shouldn’t mean a life of hesitation

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My ex-wife called her a gold-digger

And was appalled she was younger than their babysitter

Asked, ‘when she’s sitting on your lap, what nonsense does she whisper?’

I told my therapist, ‘see, this is why I don’t miss her.’

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It was all so wonderful in the beginning

Your lips reminded me I hadn’t been living

When they stared at restaurants, you’d just be grinning

I’d think to myself, ‘these jealous pricks hate that I’m winning.’

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But the slightest thing can cause severe tension

You felt betrayed when I wouldn’t make an investment

In your mental patient friend’s latest invention

Something about recycling plant stems for hair extensions

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And of course it all fell apart

You wrote a shitty second novel about your lack of a heart

Those fickle critics tore it apart

While I had a cardiac episode in a Wal-Mart

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Well, I don’t have one regret

I’m 85 now and my grandkids are in debt

But for a life in letters, what could I expect?

We may have parted, but at least we met

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