Check Yourself In

Ok, fine, go ahead and
go check yourself in.
What the f**k do I care?
The only giving that ever gets done
is in the taking;
one literally has to pay for your company. 
Oh, sure, it was fun
throwing around the idea
of an unlisted third player.
All it amounts to
is a sick, imitation mockery
of what once could have been,
what was killed and rekilled
but somehow refuses to die.
Now it's for naught
but games and revenge -
hurt me so I can hurt you;
go f**k someone to give me license;
lie and steal, to me, from me.
You've got nothing left to ransom;
everything's already been hocked.

Last time this happened
the phrase, "never again"
finally surfaced after the turbulence became still
a good year later
and "never again"
was my vulture and protector.
So clever were you -
it was such a blindside
when I became your instrument of healing
your receptacle
and your snot-rag
all on the same damn night.
You played it so exceptionally well,
I thought you'd finally sorted your priorities...
Well you did, and the object lesson
amounted to mud on the bottom.

(
con't, next column)
And f**k that whining already,
we're not kids anymore,
not bound by heavenly love
or rings or virginity.
Still I can't stand it
when you run with your cell
into the next room
and coo soothing words to her
and try to reason
for her to leave her loser boyfriend.
F**king hypocrite and chicken besides.
You can't live without her
yet you still run to me.
I should try it myself,
leveling with the woman,
but it's hard to think straight
sitting in the flames of shot-down.
It grates my nerves
as it kills my ego,
and my little black heart
grows littler and blacker.
You and I have both become
opposite parodies of that axiom,
"You can't give what you don't have,"
'cause you're craving someone with nothing
because it helps you feel worthwhile
but I'm not her;
and lately I have nothing
to give but words and more words, and my utter    frustration,
but I'm not her.
I've got the skills
perfected on you
but still you'd rather f**k her
and you won't say why.

So fine,
go ahead and check yourself in
but like the last time I'm not visiting.
Lately its in the wind that you've created another
in your likeness and why?
'Cause it makes you feel normal
as your well-worn, well-used
sense of entitlement never could. 
Run from your problems all you want,
but this one will follow you all your days.
I may still, later, consciously and willingly
play second b***h for a while
till something better comes along
and I can well and truly
kill the memory
of our doomed history
(just like you did)
by f**king you one day
and having someone better
and lying about it
the next.

So fine, go ahead, and check yourself in,
but this time I'm not visiting.
She can do for you this time,
since she already does,
can wait for you to stabilize
then pick up your broken pieces
over and over and over again.
Let her get roped into that
till she goes broke and broken herself. 
Why the f**k should I care?
Maybe I should just tell her the truth
and save us all the effort.

PamEhli/2003
Warning--Once again, to the easily offended and the underaged, please save us both the trouble and hit your 'back' button.

For those of you still here, this is really more about anger than it is about sex, as you will see. A rant can do a body good...
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