If I Took a Pill

If I took a pill

I'd feel you so much better

I'd write you a poem

That sounds like a letter

I'd kill someone mean

And I'd cut off his ear

And I'd send it to you

With “I wish you were here”

I'm trying to finish

My shabby career

With a white cigarette

And a curtain of beer

I begged you to come

I begged on the phone

How wrong can you get

I was better alone

I am trying to finish

My shabby career

With a little truth

In the now and here