its getting sad getting over it
then  what happens?
what happens to Her
when She becomes she again?

i recognize how lonely
& doomed she must feel
& how she just was saying:
treat me gently, you ape
i'm just a girl for crissake

i go to santa cruz
to find another
or just drift
then down highway 1

do i ever come back?
& when i do
i'll return with a babe
on each arm
no…bad idea…plainly stupid

show alone just to hear her sing
maybe she'll look my way
maybe she'll cry
maybe ignore me

maybe not show jealousy
(that would really kill me)
if i do have a date
only for showing her i'm not a loser

here i am with someone
young & pretty
look upon my still beautiful
geezer form & despair

dionysus & odysseus got nothin' on me...
i'm just pathetic
as unenlightened as ever

she's still Her to me
if i lived forever
i'd love Her forever
we do in a way
i will
how could i not?

-- GP aka JSW

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