people aren't good to each other
in the loud college bar
in the pages of a dostoevsky novel
waiting for the train
cheating on each other in every possible way
they all say sorry, but it's never the same
after that
a man in a boiler hat
greets my shame in a store window
and just when i think i know
something about living
i find out that i have been deceived and deceiving
everyone in every possible way
i try to be a good man
but there's just not enough hours in a day