Again

Again

Where are you now?
Have you run away?
With some stray
You met in the Bowery

Did he charm you?
Did he disarm you?
With his claim of kinship
With some celebrity

Or another
Or have you bothered
To get yourself fixed up to
Some good smack tonight

Praying on another saint
I've exhausted all candles
Dried up wax is hard
To scrape off of linoleum

Let her come in to my door
Just one more time
Again on my knees
I'm quite sure one day my pleas
Are going to fall on God's deaf ears