How You Got Your Picture on the Wall

Growing up in Richmond

You were anarchic and shy

Tried to steal some tampons

That you were too scared to buy

"Say cheese," the Kroger manager said

In his fateful drawl

That was how you got your picture on the wall

You told me the story

The first night that we hung out

A thousand miles west

In your new room in your new house

You laughed when I said

"I'd like to see that photo now"

And we kissed beneath the pictures on your wall

A couple Julys later

And we live together now

I drove your van to Richmond

To move your kid brother out

And cruising by the Kroger

I remembered all about

Laney, how you got your picture on the wall

I snuck around the back

To where deliveries arrive

I saw a door that said "MANAGER"

And so I went inside

A grid of Polaroids stared

Yours stared hardest of them all

That was how I got your picture off the wall

That was how I got your picture off the wall