Aware enough to cheer the game on, As they strike out, Your son sits behind you, Keys clicking, To fill the void of a good foot ball throw, Hallow hello hell, Fatherless fathers fell. To sleep because the drugs, Are easier than the kids, He made.
For years I wanted to be like the others too perfect to go unnoticed until you looked at me like that. You said you liked my hair and I said it wasn't like the others. You said you liked my eyes and I said they're only brown, not green or golden or blue. You said you liked my laugh and I laughed at that. It was only until then that I realized I don't want to be like the others because you don't look at them like that and because My Heart doesn't have to be the one inside me to be the one that I own.
Minnesota winter This lake, that lake The lake around the corner Frozen, wholly Catching fish through Holes in the ice Frostbite Layers of snow packed deeper And deeper And deeper Like an unsightly Ice cream cake Snowmobiles leaving traces Of minus 40 races Breath freezing to faces And icicle trim laces Something is serene Though the air Kind of smells like Freezer burn And hypothermia