08-06-2020, 09:20 AM
New York
New York only New York
baby New York.
And I’ll see you when you
say through me
that you’re the only mother fucker in this city
that can plagiarise this song
I sang it like that in Boston and picked my toenail and picked and picked away and got my thumbnail and used it like a blade and managed to get a slice into it. And then pulled it. But it was too deep. Came off under that bit above blood and stinging. But I had to do it. It was already halfway done. I couldn’t leave half me toenail hanging off. I had to commit to it. It stung and bled. But I yanked it off and thought it was over. But then there was that white dry bit of nail hanging off my toe like a raw nerve. I thought “that’s gonna catch on something”. That little bit of dry white nail under the nail. And it caught on my sock, my shoe, my bedsheets.
It fell off in the end and I forgot about it.
New York only New York
baby New York.
And I’ll see you when you
say through me
that you’re the only mother fucker in this city
that can plagiarise this song
I sang it like that in Boston and picked my toenail and picked and picked away and got my thumbnail and used it like a blade and managed to get a slice into it. And then pulled it. But it was too deep. Came off under that bit above blood and stinging. But I had to do it. It was already halfway done. I couldn’t leave half me toenail hanging off. I had to commit to it. It stung and bled. But I yanked it off and thought it was over. But then there was that white dry bit of nail hanging off my toe like a raw nerve. I thought “that’s gonna catch on something”. That little bit of dry white nail under the nail. And it caught on my sock, my shoe, my bedsheets.
It fell off in the end and I forgot about it.