Service to the landline Disconnected in year twenty-nine And the nervous black universe In the soft pit of your mom's purse Where the years hid In the Kleenex And the tears slid Down her V-necks And the spring thawed us Like a carton of ice cream But we woke Didn't we? In a nice dream Sooner or later The sad refrigerator Is holding brands that no one knows A young imitator Is standing in the crater And he's wearing your forgotten clothes And now we're young adults with tongues Burnt on boiling coffee The asthma in our lungs Burnt away so harshly Back when we were Elated from the moment we're created But who anticipated we'd be Abruptly old and caffeinated? Show me how you felt The night we heard the world melt From my room in some year In some life far from here And tell me the new name That you earned when spring came How it burned in your mind As I learned it a third time Each single person With a tendency to worsen I seem to think that we'll be friends Why don't you call me? And tell me all about the little way You're terrified that this all ends For now We're young adults with tongues Burnt on boiling coffee The splinters from the rungs You sweetly plucked them off me Elated as the red sun penetrated It slowly self-deflated And we're abruptly old and caffeinated Oh, what'd you do today? You sleep until the sunlight is upon your eyes And you won't get your way If you don't try To reach into what belongs to you And take it back But you don't want to My mother's neighbor saw my picture in the paper Holding a high school photograph of her I look just like my mother if you mixed her with another And froze in time the way they were When they were young adults with tongues Burnt on boiling coffee I memorized the songs You sang them to me softly Back when we were Elated as the girls that you once dated The lips all separated And you're abruptly old and caffeinated Elated from the moment we're created But who anticipated we'd be Abruptly old and caffeinated? Elated when from St. Hugo graduated Downhill we will spill Overcaffeinated