“If you’ve gotta tell me you’re clean...“

If you gotta tell me that you're
clean. I know from years of this that
it probably means that you're using.
The way that you resemble
row home on a city street, where all the others
have been torn down, you're the last one standing.
It must get lonely to be the one that survived
and it looks kind of awkward but kind of beautiful

I see you here in the row home on this Barcelona
street. The others have all been torn down, you're the last one standing.
It must get lonely, in the margins, on the edges

I'm a nerve in the sunlight
after two weeks in the dark
If you gotta tell me you're not using
then it's probably cause you are
I saw you there on a forgotten street a row
home with a . . . all the others have
been torn down, you're the last one standing
It Must Get Lonely