smog
nineteen

so she washed her cut in the sink
and picked up and once more
along the way
down to the bay
where i did stay

i was nineteen
and so relieved to be
beating twenty

without her clothes she looked like
a leper in the snow
i left her in the snow
without her clothes

my movements were slow
she didn't even know
what she was
taking away

we didn't talk much
it must have shown
she must have known

the next day she never called me, again

the day after that
she gave me a call
she was all drunk

her words came slow
i didn't even know
what i had taken away