the obsession

Where is the harm in obsession?
Killer bees, property tax, low birth weight...
These things I do not worry about
Because I am obsessed.

The Girl... the GIRL?
Of course there is a girl.
Obsession cannot be obsession
Without a desire
For a girl... the girl.

I watch her,
Watch her with my tongue,
With my sanity in my bag,
Because I am obsessed.

I have a watch,
And binoculars
A pair of bolt cutters
And a brain which is busy in thought
Because I am obsessed.

She lives on Charles
She works in Canton
She has a dog named Rasta
That she walks four times a day

She likes modern music
And chicken salads
With alfalfa sprouts on the side
The kind you can get in that little shop up Fayette
For $4.95

Plus tax.

She has a boyfriend named Gerald,
Who has a car with bad brakes.
Least that's what they'll think after the accident.

She has two credit cards,
Thirty-six books,
Ten video tapes,
Twenty-two pairs of panties
And a restraining order against me,

Because I am obsessed.