he didnt trust adults with white teeth  Chicklets

                                                    Dem milk teeth dem babies buhbye by six

Whakinda life they been livin

lipstick on a pig

take a woman to bed wakeup in the morning with someone they didnt recognise

                                                                                     Who you

her face smeared all over the pillowcase

                                            aint able to wash that away

bring another woman to bed

                                Who's that?

Whacha talkinbout baby

Don’t sweet talk me. Who’s the woman?

Theres no woman  Thas a pillowcase

Yeahshit . . she's lookin right at me.

She aint lookin at you

So you admit it’s a she.

Wha am I a freakin monk

Gimme a buzz when she’s gone.

                                   she sashays from the room out of the house

      

should have bought a new complement of bedding

                                                     but

might wake up another morning with a new face smeared on the pillowcase and again   not recognise the woman in their bed

           Whasay we go to your place

then they can pretend theyre gettin it on with two women

                                                                 see the logic

when adults have Chicklets

                              they were afforded or have disposable income and have disposed it on themselves

vanity

       like a puddle

                      aint deep

he hasnt ever had the wealth for vanity

though he wasnt vain

him and Popeye

                   I yam wha I yam

also figured

              theres plenty of pretty boys who leave not only her face smeared on pillowcases but theirs

                                                                                                              mirror images

knock themselves out

he trusted neither

   Christ

           Beauty is only skindeep  Vanity is as deep as a well

1804,  day-between-2-Ts – Valentines Day,  14  2. 24

1951,  Valentines Day