A Week In L.A.

A Week in L.A.  (c) 2013 Laramie Crocker 

Sunset on Berkeley

A Week in this town

is better than sayin 

I'm leaving in May

I'd stayed a year

and another year

I left my other girl

when my brother left his

and her sister said

as she stood in our kitchen

does this idiocy run in the family

in pairs

or is it contagion?

and I took a two-week vacation

once

a week on a cruise to paradise

and back

and a week in LA

a week in LA

that's what was left

seemed better than sayin

I'm stayin til May

and I'm calm under fire

capable of murder

I've taken my own life

but still, here I am

but still, here I am

and I've sold chocolate bars

delivered papers

I've been a carpenter

and I've been a trainer

and now I'm a singer

and I wanna live

and sing every day 

and live my whole life

like a week in LA