He said — She said
Jump over the bridge into the water he said
She said I shouldn’t do it, it would be dangerous
He said don’t listen to her, she doesn’t know
What she is talking about
She said my mom is calling me and I should go home
Before it gets dark
He said dark is good, it keeps people
Guessing and you like when people are guessing,
Right? She said I shouldn’t listen to him
Because he spills chili on his clothes a lot
And people shouldn’t pay attention to bed-wetters
He said it’s only because his mom brought him up
That way, emphasizing that way, shouting it
Into my ear and she said into my other ear
My other ear she said is hers only and they shouldn’t switch
Sides because then it would be confusing
He said he’s going to jettison her from this choo-choo train
She said we’re not on a choo-choo train
We’ve been sitting on this porch for hours
I think he and she should get married.
That’s what I think, I think it would be grand
Because sometimes I am afraid to think
I let them do it for me and then I don’ know
What I’m doing anymore, nor what I’m talking about
Only then am I listening, I am listening only then
To what they are saying, to whom it may concern
I am copying what they are doing, I am replicating
What they are saying, it’s going to be my birthday
Soon, it’s coming up, I’ll blow out candles
Or I’ll do what they tell me to do because they tell me so
He said I should wait until I get home to take a shower
She said I should run home naked
Because it’ll make everyone laugh
He said it’s not funny to have people laugh
At you but with you, with you is a cardinal rule
And I should remember that, he said she said
Don’t listen to him, I should giggle when I want to
Because it shows character and maybe the person
Being laughed at will realize their situation is funny
And I’ll help myself in helping others
And that would be good
He said it doesn’t really matter what you do
The sun will fall anyways
She said I should steal from the neighbors
They have real nice china plates
They’re the only ones in the town
He said I should leave the plates and go after
Something else, something bigger like the snakes
In the zoo because that would be cool and everyone
Loves snakes because they make stronger silk than worms
She says I need to water the garden first
Before I can play and that I should quit talking
To him because he’s annoying and stopping me
From doing what I’m supposed to do and that’s chores
He said someday he’d invent something everybody’ll need
And he’ll be a rich man, a millionaire, the only one
And youngest one and marry the best girl and cutest girl
And the prettiest girl and everybody’ll be jealous for his ideas
And pay him for one, so then he’ll get even richer
He said he’d hire me to steal ideas from others
She said she’d hire me to do the same for more money
