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Birthmark

from City Air by The Soft Close-Ups

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Sweet and ascending life,
how I will miss you when you go away and clear my name.

But dearly departed life,
I won’t be there to see it when you stub your toe and curse my name.

So let’s not fear the birthmark that’s all across your face.
Let’s not fear the dark; it’s getting us nowhere.

You see, I know no sympatico.
I barely ken how to spell it, though I know I used to have it down

when I was a latch-key kid , with grazed-up knees
and the names of trees all tattooed down my sleeves .

The cells may change
but the appendix scar remains.

And the last ten years?
You’re gonna wish you’d never asked.

You see, I’ve been working my front dry,
and now I wonder why.

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from City Air, released March 3, 2014

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