Stop dating my friends

He's standing right there

now sitting

now calling you babe

honey

on the small of your back

saying I'm jealous

cynically so, but supportive and kind

my meter is running out and I don't want to hate him

it's a confusing situation and you don't stop 

dating my friends

you're at my house fixing everything

the messes I make

what messes

slipping pancakes and I need a woman in the house

never underestimate the cheesy scenario

it's how I got you in the first place

the same as how he got you

you're hooked on this dairy

absolutely addicted and it's unfair, we the suppliers because you'll do anything

to keep it coming, each of us boys

and I smile while thinking jadedly about proteges and the work left to do

- a little of me in both, now that's just dirty-

the urgings and distractions

I knew it, weirdly cut off from the impressions I've made 

estranged like the old hermit

simultaneously gramps, and the little boy

yet happy that happiness looks like it's behind hip glasses-but for how long

and the cost is mine and I know it, although the dollar sign eludes the price

you'd fix my collar

an excuse to touch me, again

with my hood

you take care of me

as I always will

I lean back as you sleep on the couch, a sentinel

on watch, i am the guardian

and yet who's actually being protected

where is the loyalty

where does it lie

He scoffs at ginsberg

my poems

but those were between us and it was wrong of him

he just doesn't understand

And you have your fun

We'll miss that when it's gone