comfortable bed of nails

i'll just be over here
dissatisfied tepid with 
the curl of a rainy stem
don't you fucking  dare
don't  you fucking dare
make me say It twice

and when you're full
stuffed, beached with
my affection, you get limp 
and unrealized on the pattern
of how well i am with table cloths
paisley with my late '80s undergrowth

i can change everything without you noticing
with a swift pull-out of something nonessential
in that moment
it's do or die
in the day-
by-day 

but it's the entire foundation, which nobody cares about until the house breaks.