Ministry of Misfortuned Poets

you called me to the seance in the reading room in
old library named after Fabian Franklin
I  said I relish poetry
you said I'll like THE MISFORTUNED POETS MINISTRY so
I grabbed my bag, checked the wand
A few good incantations, I'm illegal blonde
You  sighed if I despond - you pass into the Great Beyond
so I'm gonna keep it

who'll take my place next to you?
will you feel the same like I do?
You clear your soar throat to declare
I look like Alice Armstrong;
You look like young Steve Clark;
You sang me "MIRROR, MIRROR;"
We ran on through the night
Will you be wanting this time
Be BACK?
No way it'll happen...
No way.

I smoked your last three BENSON&HEDGES cigarettes
you said You're sober from the debts and regrets
I shake your hand I say "congrats"
I've been drunk since I've met you
So the wrecking ball is wrecked
Guess the storm is imperfect
The pictures stay grey cause I splashed my CHARDONNAY
I wanna die with monsoon

will I be fine after you?
Who'll take my place next to you?
You raise a toast just to say
"you look like Sally Taylor*
I look like young James Dean*"
You'll open your GLENFIDDICH*
I'll swallow HIGHLAND PARK*
Who will be feeding your larks?
tell me You'll stick here for more
Tell me you're not wild no more
no way it'll happen
no way

i guess I get used to you showing me your wales material
since I've been working hard to make you feel ETHEREAL
nobody knows your tv shows and baby cereals
and how you cried because of  monsters and the little nicks
and I know that
I get tgat
Someone will be next to you

you loaded washing machine and made us dinner meal
no make up on you said I'm the  greatest you have ever seen
So I've seen my future with you

Who's gonna catch all your sparks
Whos gonna expose their heart?
No way It happened so now
I'm like Miranda Lambert*
And your like Shelton Blake*
You took your things, stayed at the hotel
please, dont forget that day
When I chose my place next to you

You leaned into my scars
Said I didn't have to go that far
But who's gonna stop me?

So now your Marlon Brando*
And I am Colleen Moore*

my sister made the plan and told you that I've kicked the bucket
I think I really did but I did kinda like inside
Why ain't you crying?




Fabian Franklin (1853–1939) was a Hungarian-born American engineer, mathematician and journalist, husband of Christine Ladd-Franklin

;Alice H. Armstrong was an American physicist known as one of the first female scientists at the National Bureau of Standards and as the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University, via Radcliffe College. She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1931.

;Stephen Maynard Clark (23 April 1960 – 8 January 1991) was an English musician. He was a guitarist and songwriter for the hard rock band Def Leppard until his death in 1991

;Mirror, Mirror (Look Into My Eyes)" is a song by Def Leppard and is the ninth track on their 1981 album High 'n' Dry.

*Sally Taylor is an American singer, songwriter, artist, musician, writer, and educator.

*James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American actor with a career that lasted five years.

*Glenfiddich is a single malt Scotch whiskey.

*Single Malt Scotch Whisky.

*Miranda Leigh Lambert (born November 10, 1983) is an American country singer, songwriter and guitarist

*Blake Tollison Shelton is an American country music singer and television personality.

*Marlon Brando Jr. was an American actor and activist.

*Colleen Moore was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era.