Just A Little Lovin’ - Nicole Henry

I hear your shoes sigh on the floor You're drunk on rum poached agony Love's a sheet with cigarette burns Countless lessons never learned I pour my thoughts in

The future seems so blurry at Lulu's Alibi Where you sip your scalding tea Life is ordinary You bend down to tie your lace You better stay there on your knees T

I feel your words tangled in my brain Another bad advice wrapped in cellophane Slouched in a chair a sacrificial lamb You're busy choking out sentences of doubt

I never thought that you might leave You never bought that I felt cheap And you say that I'm aloof I just compete with your TV If thoughts could cut a trail I w

Watching the pattern of cracks on the wall forever Knowing them better than anything else I've known in my life And sad Susan says daisies don't smell Whatever