A New Name For Everything

	When the bus shelter windows and napkin dispensers surprise
	With distorted reflections, it's never the someone you're hoping to recognize
	And the rent is too high living here between reasons to live
	Where you can't sleep alone and your memories groan and the borders of night start to give
	When you can't save
	Cash or conviction, you're broke and you're breaking
	A tired shoelace or a wave
	So long past past-due, a new name for everything
	When the one-ways collude with the map that you folded wrong
	And the route you abandoned is always the path that you probably should be upon
	When the bottle cap ashtrays and intimates' ears are all full
	With results of your breath, and the threads of your fear are unfurled with the tiniest pull
	One more time, try
	Stand with your hands in your pockets and stare
	At the smudge on a newspaper sky
	And ask it to rain a new name for everything
	Fire every phrase
	They don't want to work for us anymore
	Dot and dash our days
	Make your face the flag of a semaphore
	All you won't show
	The boxes you brought here and never unpacked are still patiently waiting to go
	So put on those clothes you never grew into, and smile like you mean it for once
	If you come back, bring a new name for everything