Miss Misanthrope

She said I’m blue as a robin's egg

I’ve done nothing to make me proud

I rehearse conversations in

The shower when I am home alone

No one has ever bought me flowers

Or smoked a joint on my Persian rug

Go to Mexico

And lie under a mango tree

And watch a line of crows

Grace the sudden breeze

But you won’t know where they go

Everything just scatters out

Like acorns in the snow

Or dust clouds in a drought

She said I care too much these days

About my place in this ball of yarn

There’s not a lot that I can boast

I water plants and make French toast

And muse like some misanthrope

Afraid to sow all my wild oats

Read Walt Whitman poems

Drink a bottle of champagne

And sing some Leonard Cohen

I love it when he speaks so plain

The way you often did

When I am crying after midnight

Just between us two

It makes me smile to know you’re alright