when something else is your priority other than me

yeah, i can’t tell you how much my phone blows up

with women’s words 

not about rocking my world

but how they need me to live in theirs

 

i understand why curt cobain killed himself

(“broken hearted of your highness i’m left black

throw down your umbilical noose so i can climb right back)

 

because men are not as complicated as we seem

women think they have the corner on emotion

and that men are unfeeling

 

no

 

but with women it’s all about them

and of course they will argue the stem

could not be without their root

 

but the truth?

men are you

pansexual

if sex is nothing but foreplay

for satisfying emotions

 

but like all words

these words are pointless

women won’t change

it’s all about them

and we men

flop like a fish out of water

 

wanting love

 

(hey! wait! i’ve got a new complaint

forever in debt to your priceless advice)

 

and of course women are the reason

philosophers exist

trying to figure out what the fuck is going on

 

we need what you need

yet no matter how much we bleed

we are neither strong enough or weak enough

to water the seed that flower’s your grow

and you tell us so

as if we are donald trump trying to hump

the reason everything is not right in your world

 

(meat eating orchids forgive no one yet

cut myself on angel hair and baby’s breath)

 

all i’m saying while you’re on your knees praying

for the white stallion knight to make everything right

while you endure the manikin man

you must span your life with

that doors will close amid his repose

that as you feel justified amid your unsatisfied

that he is like every other guy

 

that he is cut by the words that are heard

that flow like diarrhea from your mouth

he is not all that you need

not realizing you are the infertile seed

he sees no point in pouring water on

 

i can’t define a woman’s definition of love

i only know it doesn’t include

loving you

for who you are

you are clay in a jar

she needs to mold into something

that is not the image of you

 

until you learn how to lie

and when you try

to find the eye that sees you for what you are

you eventually learn each woman has her own agenda

and isn’t even interested in your need for acceptance

but makes it very clear that it’s your fault

and how you can correct

so she thinks you’re worth the investment

 

subject to her government

she thinks democracy is how you please

what she needs

while all the while saying you are not the demographic

from whom she expects to get the majority vote

 

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