Christmas Day

Where in the world did you come from my dear?

Did some mysterious voice tell you I'd still be here?

I bought this ticket to Mobile,

but I been stranded all day.

..p.a. said the bus broke down ten miles away from the station.

So seldom a door...so seldom a key.

..so seldom a lock like the love between you and me.

But seldom comes happiness without the pain of the

devil in the details since I saw the smile on your

face as I was crying in a Greyhound station on Christmas Day...in 1998.

The burden of love is the fuel of bad grammar.

You stutter and stammer--what a bitch to convey the

crux of the matter, when the words you must utter are

hopelessly tangled in the memories and scars you show

no one. So seldom a door.

..so seldom a key...so seldom a hit like the hurt you put on me.

But seldom comes happiness without the pain of the

devil in the details since I saw the smile on your

face as I was crying in a Greyhound station on Christmas

Day...in 1998. I remember quite clearly,

a bad Muzak version of James Taylor's big hit,

called "Fire and Rain" was playing as you crouched

down and tearfully kissed me,

and I thought, "Damn, what good fiction I will mold

from this terrible pain." So seldom a door.

..so seldom a key...so seldom a gift like the gift

you gave me. But seldom comes happiness without the

pain of the devil in the details since I saw the smile

on your face as I was crying in a Greyhound station

on Christmas Day...in 1998.

Amazing grace, how sweet the smile upon the face I

never thought I'd see you again.

..especially here in this Greyhound station...on Christmas Day...in 1998