A trader in love
is forever on the phone
making heart deals
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A trader in love
is forever on the phone
making heart deals
a lonely heart ache
making heart deals
I got the nuts, ten to ace
sunglasses pulled down
Sunglasses pulled down
as she peers above their rim
"Come hither" she says.
'Come hither' she says,
but I paralytic, drunk,
can't even roll near.
can't even roll near
the right rocks stand a circle
crack-wizened and worn
crack-wizened and worn
like an old rode hard saddle
hard luck junkie whore
hard luck junkie whore
once a glamor pin up girl
until fate nailed her
until fate nailed her
prophet who hung with Jesus
Mary Magdelene
Mary Magdalene
The other half of Mary
More interesting
More interesting
than the city's lights at night,
waves on a dark sea.
waves on a dark sea
whose laments in the breath of
winter lingered on
winter lingered on
not waiting for a season
that would do it harm
That would do it harm
Hit heart in such one way now
Ought to be broken
Ought to be broken
my heart in those careless hands
more brittle than glass