Lauren Zuniga — Things To Do In An Ice Storm lyrics

Lyrics

Hold your body out for stranded passengers
Live in laundry baskets
Weave blankets out of past conversations
You’ll need a loom as sturdy as every lie and thread as slick as every promise
Cut out your flaws into intercate patterns
Be a paper snowflake, hang yourself up, let everyone see through you
Your flaws are much more intresting than their’s
Re-stock your pantry with convinient store food
Eat the dark and quiet like honeybuns
Lick every drip of shame and icing from your fingertips until you become the
nothing and the nothing becomes you
Do price-checks on a generator strong enough to fuel 20 more years of marrige
Because that’s all you need
20 more years
And then you can leave
A family only fits in four walls of concrete
And you’re the one holding the wrecking ball
Dream about warmth
Give up being a poet so it can’t be used against you
Laugh, roller coasters, songs, change the pillow cases, do science experiments
See how many clear drops of compliments it takes to dilute the stagnant murk
you’ve been sipping 7 years now
Forget that he’s a good man
Forget that good men are hard to find
Forget that your mom has been married 6 times and none of them were worth their
weight and imported beer so she kept the last one like a 2 dollar scratch off
ticket, terrified to scratch off the last square
Buy antique dishes on ebay
Because you once heard your grandmother say that if she just had right set of dishes
She’d have a happy marrige
Forget that your grandmother is old now
Read the poems of empowered women
Stand naked in front of the mirror and for the first time, really,
look at your body
Covered in tree skin, your roots diving through red earths to find warmth
Your trunk hunched, your limbs have reached out for so long they are tingling
and numb, coated with slick and gleaming glass
Snapping under the weight, you cannot hold everyone together, you cannot make
everyone else happy
Begin packing
Take the bundle of dreadlocks
Reminensce of a man who used to value art more than structure
Take the pink-lined pregnancy test, a reminder that you always know more than
you think you do and take the 2, most beautiful gifts of forgiveness you could
ever offer each other
And take you
Watch you reflection bend and drip to the earth
And re-introduce yourself to the sun