Dark Blue Dress Suits

This time of year, this dark patch we have between Thanksgiving and Mid-December/Holiday stuff, always reminds me of 1989. I had just barely met Christine, yet was still seeing someone I'd seen on and off since the summer.


Dark Blue Dress Suits

She wore me like she washed her laundry,
  cold/cold, optional second rinse if wanted

I heard her friend privately whisper to her
  "Who’s this?"
"I’m just trying him on,"
   "If he doesn’t fit just let me know,"
The friend lives on the first floor in her same building

Two days later, ringing at her apartment building door,
  the friend opens her window, says
"I guess she’s out, you can hang out with me ‘till she returns,"
  Beacon Hill and our Boston Common love,
When she turned up, she sent me out for Dark Leggs
  while (I knew) she called the guy she called her boyfriend

She wanted to leave at the intermission of the Nutcracker,
I’d never seen the Second Act before,
  a balloonic tour of cultural world dancers,
After cheap eats we watched "To Kill a Mockingbird"
  on a B&W TV at her place,
She didn’t know Boo Radley was Robert Duvall

4 am, in bed, I'm lying with her and to myself,
So I rolled over and caressed her there, she woke up and said,
  "Ken, what’s wrong?"
Dark blue dress suits and purple eye shadow,
  why am I doing this?
I’d recently met a nice girl at work