Bougainvillea

make your claim
and stand there
open your mouth
so say so
you and you and yourself now
buy for two and return one
a secret only i know
carry on with your black torch
painted signs for your new laws
honest truth (and the god’s honest truth)
is you mean well
go and sigh, to yourself now
seize the one, thing that you wanted
make her smile
oh make her smile
make her smile (and the god’s honest truth)
is she make you smile