Hawaiian Shirts In The Electric Chair by Scott Laudati - HTML preview

it didn’t take so long

did it?

your story’s

in your

smile, those lips

once said

“i’ll

never

love again”.

i know

you’re a fighter, kid,

life

didn’t take

it’s time

with

you, but you’re

not so bored,

there’s still a

light in there.

sure,

you

can sway

like the

Breezy

palm trees

of your hometown

but i don’t

want to

know

if you can bend ...

can you break?

i remember

your greasy

hair from

the plane,

your legs crossed

on the white sheets,

the slow surrender

of your eyes

when you realized

i thought you

were beautiful.

it was sudden

and eternal.

i chose you

to erase

all my sorrows.

will you?

you see

life in the raw

and that makes me

trust you.

we know

When

We

find

our own

i think

about what it

will be like.

the coffee.

the date.

the booze.

the bed.

the cigarette.

but

i can

leave those

for the men

that came

before.

i

want

your window,

to

watch

the breeze

through the leaves

of those palms

and wonder

if this life

actually

existed before

you got here