Gratitude

	Thank you for letting me stay here
	Thank you for taking me in
	Thank you for the beer and the food
	Thank you for loaning me bus fare
	Thank you for showing me around
	That was a very kind thing to do
	Thank you for the use of the clean towel
	Thank you for half of your bed
	We can sleep here like brother and sister, you said
	But you changed the rules in an hour or two
	And I don't know what you and your sisters do
	But please don't
	Please stop
	This is not my obligation
	What does my body have to do
	With my gratitude?
	Look at you
	Little white lying
	For the purpose of justifying
	What you're trying to do
	I know that you feel my resistance
	I know that you heard what I said
	Otherwise you wouldn't need the excuse
	Thank you
	For letting me stay here
	Thank you for taking me in
	I don't know where else
	I would have turned
	But I don't come and go
	Like a pop song
	That you can play incessantly
	And then foget when it's gone
	You can't write me off
	And you don't turn me on
	So don't change the rules in an hour or two
	I don't know what you and your sisters do
	But please don't
	Please stop
	This is not my obligation
	What does my body have to do with my gratitude?