Solo Poly – The Dream Sets In

The things we’re supposed to be grateful for 

Your life is full

You have everything a man could want
It’s over there 
on the other side of the city
universe 
on the top of a hill 
I look up and see
I look down and withdraw
into myself

I fight for space 
I can’t find it
I can’t fit into the top of the hill 
Either there’s not enough room or I’m too big
I feel myself trying to insert myself 
There’s a functioning family on a couch in Minnesota 
and one in Illinois 
and neither family has room for me. 


I just want a touch, a reminder that I’m not alone 

She has everything a girl could want
I have everything I never wanted

(So many things I can’t forget
So many tattoos falling down my face)

I never just get to have it
the thing I choose for me.