Borneo - The Fiery Furnaces

I was so bored with my old life;

I was so bored with decent odds

My new roommate left her debit card:

Some sort of test for me.

It’s too hard

Try to run an errand.

Nervous sweat

I rush back home and if I win I’ll give her half (I bet.)

Online casinos in the Caymans;

Legal disclaimer writ for layman’s

I moved back into New Canaan;

Babysit my sister’s kids;

it’s rainin'

They fuss a bit while I put them to bed

And grumpy, sitting on the couch, I get it in my head:

Take Metro North.

A silver candlestick

To Aqueduct on LIRR Pick

I was so bored with my new life

I felt like I new all the odds

I bet 'gainst myself I wouldn’t wager

My boyfriend’s mother’s mansion (nothing major)

I stole the deed one night when she was drunk

I drove onto the reservation with it in my trunk

Sensors beep the threshold when I crossed it;

Thirty thousand marker soon I lost it

Baltimore inner harbor (sports) zone:

Being courted.

He’s talking on his cell phone

«let me tell you why I think I love her:

She knows you always take the bye week dome home team to cover.»

Go up to Pimlico and I choose

It’s no fun if it’s fine when you lose

I was so tired with all the angles;

I was so bored with losin' easy

So I gambled on going further a-field

So I flew to Sydney and then to Bali and then to Jakarta

And called on my step-father's ex-business partner

Major Timmy Sastrosatomo

And he set me up as a silver smith/batik dabber

In a house once owned by the Princes of Mataran

And he told me all his trobles

We bribed a CFO at Semen Cibinong

To get them to buy a 40% stake

And we got a 5 million dollar order from Nieman Marcus

Which we filled about 10% of

But I did sell them my children’s book

Which I said was a South Sumatran

Folk tale- which went like this:

I played cards for seven days straight

Was up $ 47 dollars late

Evening as the sun went down I saw

The ace of diamonds up his sleeve — black velvet on his paw

I fold, say goodbye politely

They bark, you don’t get off that lightly

I dreamed of a casino way up in the hills of Borneo

Where I lost with the giant flying squirrels and orange orangutans and great

mormon butterflies all day long

'Til the bulldozers turned us into Whole Fruit Fruit Bar sticks and china

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