Roberta C.

Carson, Flannery and Jerome line the bookshelves at home
Waiting tables in some café to pay my student loans
If they didn’t make me sneeze, I’d get a cat and name her Eloise
Someone to talk to in the least
A listless intellectual in her prime
Scrabble high score: 409
With nothing remarkable to leave behind
Smoking lights, working nights
And frequent trips to the public library
Don’t make much of a life
But it’s all going to change
Maybe tonight
I’m leaving something
To remember me by
A listless intellectual in her prime
Scrabble high score: 409
And the note on the bed
True love is hard to find