Re-runs (Unplugging The Damned Thing)
I've lost the remote control to your love
I checked under the couch
and in between the recliner
But it wasn't there.
Now,
I can't press forward to move on from my mistakes
Nor can you rewind to remember our past and the great memories we once shared
We can't change the channel when we can't compromise
I can no longer comfortably turn you on at my leisure.
I went and bought one of those universal love remotes
But I can't figure out the code to your heart
I know I wrote it down somewhere.
...
What's worse is your love is stuck on mute
And there is no volume button anywhere to be found
So you no longer talk to me
And I no longer hear you
All because
I've lost the remote control to our love.
(© copyright by Angel Suarez, from "Smoke And Mirrors", the collected works of The Number 42 (forthcoming)