PANDORA

I opened Pandora's box
and asked her to play a Spin Doctors station
it seemed like a 1990s revue

Goo Goo Dolls
Blues Traveler
Third Eye Blind
Blind Melon

and yet
it was fun to relive those days
days in love
days of freedom

as I cooked pasta in my kitchen
and ate it perched on the kitchen counter

SEX WITH AN EX

When you have sex with an ex in your dream

But you never had sex with that ex

No, not that one

I DESERVE THIS

It's not much

I deserve this

It is enough

I deserve this

YOU SAY

You're the leading lady,
but nobody else knows
except for the camera.

Other characters spurn you
for being the unmarried underdog.

She needs to get laid, they say.

She needs a boyfriend.

She should be dating more, others say.

But they are on the outside looking in,
and they don't even have
as much insight
as the camera.