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The sun has set and the house grown cold
Ignored your own adage and left not a proverb untold
Nouns sounding abstract from your mouth to my mind
Fear of the unknown obscuring your cataract eyes

All of the feet that once pattered and scampered to you
Bounded and clacked off until they were clear out of view

April Fool’s Day tricks
Nearly forgotten like all of your old nervous ticks
Repeating words three times giving out countless gifts
Sunday-school teaching and hoping it’s not just a myth

How could I soothe you when I’m not sure if there’s a God
If you’ll be rewarded for faithfully falling apart
All those who love you might like to forget you’re alive
As your conscious decomposition set a fire in our hearts

We watch our bodies fall apart

The reverend has seen this before
Heard the moans and the screams
Well he’s seen the reaching before
And he knows what it means

When uncle Paul wore the barn rope round his neck
Did you wonder if it mattered which way we went
While on our way to bury him
We drove on the sidewalks so you wouldn’t fall down
Laughing, “no curb is too high for a rental”

If karma is real, what don’t I know about you?
Were skeletons resting near dresses and old pairs of shoes?
With a husband who drank too much, so many sicknesses ravaging you
And a sadness that poisoned you long ‘fore the ides of March took you

We watch our bodies fall apart

But it’s performance art how you fall apart
With grace in your heart
You fall apart
You fall apart
You fall apart
For the grace in your heart, you fall apart
With grace, with grace in your heart

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from A Simple Twinkling Melody, released June 19, 2020

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Lone Valentine Chicago, Illinois

Chicago native singer songwriter and member of Wild Earp and The Free For Alls.

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