Cold Shoulder

Cold Shoulder

Are you friendly, cold shoulder?
Are there encouraging words behind
The rejecting, typed lines?
Haven't you heard?
Now is my time -
Weren't you listening?
I can wait,
I've been practising patience for a very long time,
So

Take apart the girl,
Piss on all her dreams,
Laugh and make her small -
It's so easy to be cruel.

Make believe,
Worlds out of words
Alive on the page, not quite good enough
But maybe, someday,
Call it lust, call it craving, call it
What you want, it started out as sanity-saving
And I'm FINE, capital F,
As long as I can write they can't hurt me yet,
So

Listen up, cold shoulder,
I'm a dealer in dreams, I'm a teller of stories,
I have the words and the means,
Better hear me, cold shoulder,
Someday, someday,
I'll succeed.