Don't get me wrong oblivion



don't get me wrong oblivion
I never loved you kiddo
you that was always sticking around
spoiling me for everyone else
telling me how it would make
you nutty if I didn’t let you
go the distance
and I gave you my breasts to feel
didn’t I
and my mouth to kiss

   O I was too good to you oblivion old kid that’s all
   and when I might have told you
to go ahead and croak yourselflike
you was always threatening you was
going to do
I didn’t
I said go on you inter-
est me
I let you hang around
and whimper
   and I’ve been getting mine
Listen

there’s a fellow I love like I never love anyone else that’s six
   foot two tall with a face like any girl would die to kiss and a skin
   like a little kitten’s
that’s asked me to go to Murray’s tonight with him and see the cab-
   aret and dance you know
well
if he asks me to take another I’m going to and if he asks me to take
another after that I’m going to do that and if he puts me into a taxi
and tells the driver to take her easy and steer for the morning I’m
going to let him and if he starts in right away putting it to me in
the cab
   I’m not going to whisper
   oblivion
do you get me
   not that I’m tired of automats and Childs’s and handling out ribbon to
   old ladies that ain’t got three teeth and being followed home by pimps
and stewed guys and sleeping lonely in a whitewashed room three thou-
sand below Zero   oh no
I could stand that
but it’s that I’m O Gawd how tired
of seeing the white face of you and
feeling the old hands of you and
being teased and jollied about you
and being prayed and implored and
bribed and threatened
to give you my beautiful white body
   kiddo
that’s why

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