MARILYN

Went to the smoke shop today

It's a head shop but I call it a smokeshop anyway

Saw some girl

She was looking back at me

"Nice T-shirt"

That was her whole line

That's what she said to me

I looked around to see who she was talking to

But she was talking to me

Guess this T-shirt is pretty cool

She had Marilyn

Tattooed on her neck

Looking back at me

Marilyn was looking all her best

Funny how we can share these moments

With total strangers

Either way

They still feel honest

Life - something happens in fleeting moments

These things happen

When the strange comes upon us

Every where we turn

Is another connection

Just three dates away

From diehard affection

Doesn't matter which way we're going

Our heart and our blood

Is always flowing

None of these

Things are an anomaly

And that's because

We are one big family

Finished helping a friend move

Into a new domicile

Feeling introspective

I was thinking for a while

Stopped at the store

That we call "gross out"

There was another mommy

Who was seeing me - there's no doubt

She had Marilyn

On her shoulder

Crazy detail

I almost touched her

Saw her daughter

Staring right back at me

In this nuclear age

We are all nuclear families

This old sense

Of how things supposed to be

No longer really

Really mean anything

We are all subject

To our hearts

Like a harness

But sooner or later

They always keep us honest

Don't know what this sign is

Or what it means to me

But Marilyn

Please keep coming to me

Oh shit

I just looked at my T-shirt

Put it on in the dark

Now I'm smiling

It's absurd

Look into the mirror

Guess who's staring back at me

It's Marilyn

Guess I am the one

Who Started this whole thing