My scheme
Was to redeem
Every previous scheme
I had pulled
I thought
I had my shot
That's why I bought
Something for you to hold
Till I came
Back with the name
That I had when I started out
But I can't recall how it went
Or what it was all about
So I go power-walking with my mom
Through the first profile she had
On AOL-dot-com
And I may as well
Sign on
My dreams are of old teams
For which I warmed the bench on
The game where my grandparents came
And Halloween decorations
Mean a lot to me
To the spot in me
That's hotter than the autumn sun
But colder than the autumn's shoulder
When the fall winds run
I stapled my fate to skateboard kicktails
And rash attachments on desperate emails
I'm drowning in dry cleaning tags and safety pins
Do you think it's something you still can make matter?
I wake up every Sunday in the pancake batter
With all my soccer trophies just posed like mannequins
Twenty short years
In my narrow hallway house
The television's muted
I've booted any spouse
On an anniversary that's hinging off the door
The furnace is a nursery
For the only child we bore
And how it
Roars with old spit
On the carpet I installed
On my knees
Was it centuries
Ago when, oh, how we crawled?
When I came
In with the name
That you gave me when I woke
Gently, evidently
All our time is just some kind
Of joke
My scheme
Was to redeem
Every previous scheme
I had pulled