User Guide

You came with a 'user's guide'.

The salesman guaranteed you.

I bought you,

and used you,

But I never bothered to read the guide.

Later I lost you.

Malfunction.

By this time,

I had known you so well,

I had thrown the guide out.

I wish that I hadn't bought you,

Whatever the discount was.

I wish that I hadn't loved you,

Whatever the special offers were.

You're a broken colour tv,

Through which I can only see black and white.

You're a broken telephone,

That rings when no one's calling.

You're an ipod,

Where I can only hear one song,

Repeating,

Even when I have a thousand others.

Stop.

I want to breathe.

I want to be free.

Free.

I want to be free.