Xmas Break

Jewelry girl

men give each other their

pinkies to guess 

ring sizes

The palace ring

emerald

tangled

up in the black hairs

of a fiance

it’s very cute

he’s a contractor

Difference between opal and moonstone

should be obvious

but I’m an idiot

I thought about the diff btw

sugar coating and 

sanitizing

actually it’s a huge diff

between rats in the house

and not

Something lead me to the dixie chicks

almost lead to a car crash

Reminded me of afternoon

talk radio stomach ache

as a baby

Dixie chicks sang about things too real

for me at the time, I hit skip,

crying

I think it was too horny

the little flies on their noses

their crazy expressions with crossed eyes

skin so bright

their toe-ringed toes dipped in painted pebbles

waiting for my toe

I wanted everything black and lime green

Cold day in July

that line

which I didn’t get meant like

when pigs fly

I just thought

weird weather

bad coincidence

divorce: sucks

It was as if the sun was shining

on exactly that line 

in my mind for years

Suns comin up

down on mainstreet

head in my hands

here I am standing

in my barefeet 

I didn’t realize they were talking to me

that they meant

this is gonna be you

I was just eating a muffie

drinking an Izze

backseat

Alone

Christmas

I don’t know    

I skip’t it

Worked in a jewelry store

A guy said “I was made aware

Of these earrings”

Sullenly he took the box

gifts are mostly

stupid

One of those things that seems even worse

Because it should be so much better

Pollution 

Why don’t you just give her $285 and she can get herself the right size?

Sighing, I cry 

I like crying

when the right song

comes on

at the shop

on Christmas Eve