“If you've gotta tell me you're clean...“

If you gotta tell me that you're

clean. I know from years of this that

it probably means that you're using.

The way that you resemble

row home on a city street, where all the others

have been torn down, you're the last one standing.

It must get lonely to be the one that survived

and it looks kind of awkward but kind of beautiful

I see you here in the row home on this Barcelona

street. The others have all been torn down, you're the last one standing.

It must get lonely, in the margins, on the edges

I'm a nerve in the sunlight

after two weeks in the dark

If you gotta tell me you're not using

then it's probably cause you are

I saw you there on a forgotten street a row

home with a  . . . all the others have

been torn down, you're the last one standing

It Must Get Lonely