charlie's girl

10/2/17 12:17 AM

"Crazy Feeling" -Lou Reed, 1976

Charlie's girl is so sour

A cute pout and sparkling disinterest

That "ignore you" beauty in the corner

A grin from ear to ear could muffle a train horn

But she speaks, and speaks real thought

Answers to my questions, not hers

She's attentive like a prowling tiger, but soft

She'll get bubbly

and almost comical

Charlie's girl likes the classics

the compendium for cigarette wasters and petty poets

and maybe she likes me

a dour looking scruffy petty poet

enough to rip boards and screw in walls

She's quite good at it

Better than me sometimes

I try not to take credit or boast

But she'll still let me take it

There's someone in my head,

Whenever I'm stuck in bed,

And if she lets me get no rest,

At least I'll feel loved instead.