Put On Those Rose Colored Glasses

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Hey, baby, don't be like that

When I told you there was no one else,

I wasn't really lying

You see,

I meant that there was no one else

worth mentioning,

No one else

worth getting you all upset about

See?

And it's over anyway, so

let's just forget all about it, ok?
Aw, honey

don't be like that

You know you're my girl

and "I gotta work late"

sounds so much prettier than

"I'd rather pull out all my teeth with your tweezers

than watch "Dancing With the Stars" again!"

I mean, do you really want me to say,

"I'd rather be shot through the face with bullets than have you kiss me"? or

"Your meandering hands feel like spiders crawling all over my skin"?

Yeah, I say, "Plant one here, baby!" and I smile

even though it hurts

C'mon, sweetie

don't go changing the locks again

I bought you some roses 

Naw, I didn't buy her any

She doesn't even like roses, 

and yours cost me way more!

Let's just go to bed, huh?

I'll pretend your dismal thrusting gets me off

just like I always do

I'm done with her

It's all about you now, baby

Wild horses couldn't drag me away, just like the song

I love you, baby

You believe me, right?

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, You Could Have Done Better, Out of Standard

and The Sunday Whirl, Wordle 177

Whale Hips

Whales have hipbones

though they no longer walk on land

The remnant of a past life

lingers

well beyond its usefulness

Perhaps this is analogous

to the love I still feel for you

and the hurt 

that

I haven't seen you

or talked to you

in decades

The past

imprints itself on the present

Vestigial feelings

Meaningless and wasted

Saved like an old sweater that no longer fits

but was once was so soft and warm

that you just can't give it up.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Obscuring the Truth With Facts, Out of Standard