Love Affair
by Regina Spektor

There was a love affair in this building
the kind of love affair
which every respectable building must keep as a legend
Slowly festering through an innocent by the way
or have you heard
he was perfect except for the fact that he was an engineer
and mothers prefer doctors and law-yers

Yet despite this imperfection
he was clean looking and respectable looking
and you'll never find a mother
who doesn't appreciate a natural man
So he grew healthy aloe Vera plants by the window
healthy teeth in his mouth
healthy hair on his head
He grew healthy wavy brown hair on his head
the kind that babies always go for with sticky little fingers