Dudes who complain about yardwork<\/p>\n
Dudes who don’t take out the trash<\/p>\n
Dudes who leave the spoons on the side of the sink<\/p>\n
Dudes who leave the drain clogged<\/p>\n
Dudes who smash mailboxes with bats<\/p>\n
Dudes who don’t take their medication often<\/p>\n
Dudes who forget birthdays and anniversaries<\/p>\n
Dudes who are unusually close<\/p>\n
Dudes who work on cars<\/p>\n
Dudes who don’t coupon at all<\/p>\n
Dudes who read westerns<\/p>\n
Dudes who can’t sit through a play<\/p>\n
Dudes who slash tires over stares<\/p>\n
Dudes who don’t know how to play UNO<\/p>\n
Dudes who leave the toilet seat up<\/p>\n
It’s us , we’re dudes<\/p>\n
she needed a ride home and we obliged<\/p>\n
no one at the party knew our names<\/p>\n
and were too obliterated to capture faces<\/p>\n
you’re handsome and your small talk is distracting<\/p>\n
in the rearview I can see her eyes<\/p>\n
on your chin and cheeks and collarbones<\/p>\n
drinking them in with tipsy lust<\/p>\n
keeping your cool, the last one got you too excited<\/p>\n
and you punched them in the head over and over<\/p>\n
as I stayed on the lookout for cops and nosy drivers<\/p>\n
so enthralled by you<\/p>\n
and not paying attention to the exit signs that fly by<\/p>\n
far away from where she told me to drop her off<\/p>\n
flashing like green lights to a place<\/p>\n
she’d rather not know she was going to<\/p>\n
and not coming back from.<\/p>\n
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