I want to go back in time
or at least back to the Upper East Side
to Alice's Tea Cup, Chapter 3,
and see if that same iPod is there,
still playing the same music.
good times and bad times,
I was nailing everyone
and drinking Skyy Vodka
with Nick and Sam and Gina,
and had a huge crush on Dru.
I've been back there
a few times
and not much changed,
but now it's been half a decade,
give or take some self pity.
pretend I am a dragon,
but give me a pumpkin scone
and let me look around;
I am flying there with fire breathing
and a mission of telling the past to go to hell.
the smell will be different,
the music will be the quest,
and I got a girl in the war,
her eyes are like the smell of rain,
but she hasn't said hi to me in four thousand days.
I'll charge my phone at one of those
fancy kiosks things on the corners,
with a stolen USB charger,
and I will laugh as the world
leaves me behind and I leave it.