Perfect Disaster [Glosa Verse]

Lines taken from the amazing poet Ciao;
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You know you`re never gonna feel like that again,
And you know, sadly, that he doesn't really mind.
All those sweet nothings crack your plastic heart -
Watch as your "once upon a time" slowly falls apart."

I play the same old love song over and over to think of you,
And you may not see me, but you see my game right through;
I`m playing with hearts, and our fists are in a showdown,
Leaving our mouths wild to spread the word all over town.
The women on my side fight with your army of drunk men,
This isn`t even between me and you Baby, it`s between them;
We`ve all got our opinions on one another, but it`s a privilege;
And together we`re abusing it, throwing our ammo to sink this bridge.
It`s a sad story Honey, because it takes me way back to then -
You know you`re never gonna feel like that again.

I`ve found it hard to find a peace of mind in the empty streets,
So I kick my black goodbye shoes off of my dancing feet,
And I run on through the town, arms open wide and proud;
With a milky smile: I sing synthetic words to you, sing them loud.
Fabricated with sincerity I leave you behind with your kind,
Because heartbreakers belong together, minds combined:
It`s the best way to cook up a recipe for disaster Baby,
And you know that with this perfect disaster you destroyed me.
It`s a sad reality to face when you come this far and nothing`s what you find -
And you know, sadly, that he doesn`t really mind.

You can throw out all the excuses you think of to make you mine,
But Baby, I know your beautiful eyes is where she`ll always shine;
And with every beat of you heart that I`m close enough to hear,
Her name thumps through my mind so I`m gonna make this clear:
Lay your heart out on the table, give it your all; that`s a start,
But you need to put down the carefully written script and play the part -
Spontaneity is better than a planned out conversation for two,
And besides, your short film plays out for heartbreak; I can see it through.
You may have the looks to go with the words, but you aren`t very smart -
All those sweet nothings crack your plastic heart.

Like Barbie had her Ken, I had you for a year or two,
And even now, this is something I don`t want to do;
But my naivety has always gotten the best of me,
And you knew my weakness, it`s easy to see.
So you did all that you could to get inside of my heart,
But when you got in, was it what you wanted from the start?
`Cuz your pathetic lies were never paved into cement,
But I saved them just for the sake of an argument.
And I took my shotgun and put a bullet into your heart -
Watch as your "once upon a time" slowly falls apart.

-Jenna Elphick
August 20, 2007

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Glosa-Verse: A Spanish form invented by court poets in the 14th and 15th centuries. An opening quatrain, called a 'cabeza' is chosen from another poet, or song. The glosa elaborates or 'glosses' on the quatrain with four ten line stanzas, their concluding lines taken consecutively from the quatrain and their sixth and ninth lines rhyming with the borrowed tenth.