Knowing You

Will you let me shift to dirt
Sift out what I’m worth
I can hang out in the flower pot
I’d like to stick around
I used to have a cactus at your house
But I drowned it out
And when it turned brown
I had to drop it down the garbage chute
With the coffee grounds
And it went down, down, down, now.
I’m waking up
Knowing that
Knowing you is good for me
I’m waking no one
Though I know I’m
Feeling worse than before
Am I the stupid joke and the courtesy laugh
Because I don’t want to be that
I’ll tell you if it gets worse, and you tell me
Because there are worse things we could be
Than two screwups
Under god, indivisible
And I don’t want to leave you
But I say I’ve got to go
Just to leave on a good note, now…