Political Scientist
Ryan Adams


	He is drinking water from the faucet from the river
	From the tributary it comes through rusty pipes
	Outside his window sees the water supposed to be clean
	But the chemicals  polluted by the candy factory lines
	Someplace on the edge of town
	Someplace on the edge of town
	Is where they live --
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	So now she is crawling on her hands and her knees
	She is dirtying her jeans choking on her own perfume
	With a pen she writes below the sink in someone’s restaurant
	"This place is inconvenient for my name"
	She forgets to write it anyway
	She forgets to write it anyway
	The government supplies the cocaine
	Political scientists
	There’s no guarantees
	There’s no guarantees
	There’s no guarantees
	
	
	
	Banging hard upon her crooked drum
	She feels them tearing down salvation army houses back in Michigan
	Her husband’s divorced but he treats her that way of course
	Because he needs her just like he needs medicine
	She forgets to write him anyway
	She forgets to write him anyway
	What’s red and white and nearly over
	Political scientists
	Political scientists
	Political scientists
	There’s no guarantees
	There’s no guarantees
	There’s no guarantees