Answering Machine Messages:

      1]
      Robbed of sleep I can only feel
      The iron bed of your steel will
      And sleepless lie upon my cot
5     Meditating over what I have not
      2]
      Although we don't know Reality's basis
      Time is not a stasis
      For (God knows) in Life's whirlpool
10    Each one goes from sage to fool
      3] 
      "Thank you for breaking my heart, you sonofabitch"
      You're Welcome, then
      Is where we must begin
15    For the breaking of the heart
      Is the very worst part
      4] 
      her eyes a monster's beauty
      her laugh contagious fire 
20    her heart too finely lonely 
      her breath a wilderness of desire

 

From the collection "The Soft Assault"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

More information available on gregglory.com.