She owned a pet deer

And smelled of cigarettes

The whole house in a haze

Mother of a very nice lesbian

And strange like the new kid

Who eats boogers

You want to befriend him

But there’s just too big a wall of weird

To know what to do with

So you smile and think

I’m a horrible person

Yet there I was in her care

How hard up for sitters

Could people be

To leave me with her

In a house so thick with smoke

That my stomach hurt so deep

For days.

She was very lonely

Dead now I’m sure

But a friend to me

That you mocked just seconds

Before leaving me

With her