If you wear a Pentegram shirt
you are a witch

If your friend claims to be psychic
having the eye of Ra as a tatoo
he is a witch too

If your other friend
practices
with tarot cards and such
watching the craft
and you pretend there isn't an us
she is also one

If you two play
as if anger is funny
clenching your fists
in front of you
as an inside joke
as you blame me
and then when I get angry
you hold the rope
you are witches

If your grandmother kicks you out
the day I get back
after I asked you to ask her about the longdistance rates
of the telephone
and to have her permission
and she says "Oh I don't know"
and "Yes"
she is a witch

If I gave you money
and phone cards
and had you call during the day
watching the time
for risk
and the phone bill comes back being over four hundred dollars
you both still are witches

If I tell you I am trying to fast
and you try to belittle me
just like in everything else- you did and still try to do
and then your Aunt gives me
"Extreme for Jesus"
she is a witch
and does not practice the truth

If your same friend
wanted to hide all of my stuff when I was high
this friend
with the eye of Ra
and thinking about it
you had no friends when you were with me
that you hung out with often
and said that you liked
only three others did you count as friends
also discarding the ones of which
when I was with you
that unto you did not 'offend'

If you read Anne Rice
and hold the witche's series foremost
saying the Queen of the damned is your favorite
of the Vampires
and in "Charmed" do chiefly boast
If you ask me how you knew to go to the party
the night that we met
and then I reply curiously
and you blow it off
and say nevermind
and relent
If your grandmother has as story
how the Catholics killed her sister
telling me that I didn't need to go to church
to be one of His members
If she spends all day on the bed
and speaks as the rest of you do
only cursing
even when you speak as if blessing
grace and truth according to you
being bent
If your aunt gives me
"Wild at heart"
for a gift
this also after you broke up with me
saying that you cheated on me
the night I bought the ring
when you commanded me not to drive after I drank
though I had spent most of the night
after drinking
playing pool
and in climbing out of the passenger side door
which was the only one that from the outside I could easily lock
your sister said she saw me stumble
and so you told me to leave
when my daughter started talking
like your mom
whose throat shrieks
when she asks for a melting pot for a present
and when your mom lets two year olds watch
"Night Flyer"
the two year old who barely talked
who was fed cough syrup
and whose favorite movie
was "Blade 2"
when "The craft" is so very amusing
between your friend and you
when all of your friends that didn't have jobs or go to school
were all freaks
when I have never seen you have a job
but have heard a report of it
though you had more than enough of my time and money
when you said you wanted to get married in a black dress
and try to usurp me
with nearly your every breath...
you are all witches
and if there is anything I left out
don't worry
I repent