now i know that we will lay down
face down
on the floor at two o clock in the morning
to relieve our loneliness
now i know we will pay money, do time to smack
smack lovers, talk smack
to make a brief connection
now i know that you will keep on sending out
hellos into the ether
hoping for one hello back
and you will screw it all up
and do it again
and then, i know why hardhearted people
wound up in stupid wound each
each other
and how one word, placed in two parts
of a sentence becomes another
and now i know
that what we all need
is to be a little kinder
to each other