Now That I've Exploded
       

it's like the firetrucks
actually sound
like they're celebrating
it's like the highway
at a distance
sounds like people cheering
like they're at a concert in honor of me:
the Queen of Spectacular Mistakes
and now
now that i've exploded
now that i am fire for so long
such slow burn now
i turn this entire saloon into cinder
turn every suitor into kindling
you know what they say:
you can take the girl out of Jersey
but you can't take the Jersey out of
Go Fuck Yourself.
oh honey
there's plenty of other fish in the sea
oh honey
plenty more hot coals to swallow
now my car
it runs on my anger
the conversion process isn't hard to master
the firefighter
never fights fire with fire
all you get
is more fire
and you must think you can fight the fire
because it was somehow asking for it
like it's just too damn hot to leave alone
like fire's okay as long as it ain't Wild
now that i've exploded
i wouldn't wish a corporeal form
on anyone
i'd take burn over break
any day of the week
and now
now that i've exploded
smiling within this city's limits
is the sweetest revenge i can get
it's like it never ends
and it's just beginning
it's like how
just yesterday
i was driving off
to anywhere else
when a terrified deer
bolted across the intersection
how it just barely dodged two speeding cars
how it tried to leap this metal fence
but got clipped hard
by the sharp of it
how it somersaulted right off the bridge
it is just like that
like me
peering down towards the rocks
where the river used to be
the animal already gone through the trees
now that i've exploded
it is just like that
like how i died from you
no body
no burial
just
driving away
silent

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