Drown Her in the Bathtub

cleverness is a joke
told two hundred times in the back room
of some shitty hipster bar
or on the third floor of some
brooklyn brownstone

you stand in awe of
some bitch who makes blanket observations
about Patti Smith
and here i am ranting
about my "uncool"
measured against your seamless narcissism

now
i'm looking in the mirror
staring down my wit
and she tells me she's at her end