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Downtown Brooklyn
05:53
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It was fun for the first few weeks
After Paul got fired.
We’d drink gin and iced tea on the front stoop
In the late afternoons.
At dusk we’d walk down to the bar on Dekalb
To meet Marsha and you.
And we’d all sing along to old Motown songs
Benny would play on the juke.
After awhile the money got tight
So I took a few shifts at the diner.
Paul switched to whiskey and quit looking for work
Coming home later and later.
Then he got in that fight with the Dice Boys at Benny’s
And lost the jacket I gave him at Christmas.
Came into the restaurant with blood on his shirt
And I said it’s over.
I spent the fall on friends’ couches,
By New Year’s I’d moved to that place on Lorraine.
Paul showed to St. Mary’s Ash Wednesday
I heard he was looking good, not great.
Marsha turned 30, we were both at her party.
I drank enough scotch to forget how we left things.
We kiss in the alley until I remembered.
I pushed him away, walked twelve blocks to the train.
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Another Mile
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I've been remembering our small adventures
Walking with Jen the long way into town
Diving down in Nichols Quarry
The day after the storms
It was warm throughout September
We'd spent the summer planning how
To steal back her bicycle
From those kids in Jacksontown
I've been remembering our small adventures
The vital trials of our childhood
I heard Jen's cancer is in remission
So I'll go down to Alabama
And visit her this Fall.
Jen was on the handlebars
As we tore down Sandford Row
We still heard those kids hollering
The whole way to Odena.
We were whooping, we were laughing
The leaves already turning.
It was downhill all the way home,
The moon rising behind us.
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3. |
She Visits Home
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I think the stars are disappearing down here.
Jen said “yeah, we lost Perseus for a whole two months last year.
They keep the lights on all night, at the new mall out west.
The doctors say, I’ll probably always be, a little out of breath.
I guess I’ll always feel like I’ve come home running."
She said “I’m sure no one will ever come clean,
But I know it’s got to be from the fire at the refinery.
Remember we bussed to Odena West, the smoke was so bad that year?”
Then she got up from her lawnchair and said “Would you like another beer?”
I nodded “yeah.”
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4. |
the Midnight to New York
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I thought I felt a little rain
And watched the first drops darken the pavement.
I was waiting at the bus station;
The midnight to New York was running late.
At times like this I wonder
The way life might meander if I bought a ticket elsewhere, or just stayed here.
I could rent that little place above the gas station,
And visit with my mother every Sunday.
Or I could move back to Asheville,
I'm sure the boys at the Mothlight have been missing my whiskey sours.
But then over the loudspeaker: "Boarding for Richmond"
And I think that's my transfer so I head inside.
There's a two person line at gate number three, and the driver outside is tapping a headlight.
The flashing on the station wall, like some coded message, warning me not to leave.
The driver asks for "tickets please" when it's my turn I hand him mine hesitantly.
I board the bus and settle in for a long night.
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Mending Brooklyn, New York
The Wakerobin Archive is an ongoing experiment in speculative storytelling in song.
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Book 01, "We Gathered at Wakerobin Hollow" is a four hour, nine album drone folk exploration of sisterhood and climate change.
Book 02 commences in March 2020.
Mending is Kate Adams and Joshua Dumas
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