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The dog sleeps where mom did
Sometimes
I stop and wonder on her—
What’s it like, having fallen
For a maintenance-boy after the hard truth
Of a one-night stand lands
You with three boys, and a man
Who takes the long route to
A bachelors in torching oil wells
And a half-century of fierce hell-fires burning
Just beyond the 'burbs of heaven.
For fifty years, she slept to his left,
Three years past his dying day
She can't quite leave that empty space
His ghost still claims in hollow song
She's barely moved from that spot
Where for fifty goddamn years
He lay snoring, dreaming, kicking her
Always just a heart-ache’s reach away
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I stop and wonder on her—
What’s it like, having fallen
For a maintenance-boy after the hard truth
Of a one-night stand lands
You with three boys, and a man
Who takes the long route to
A bachelors in torching oil wells
And a half-century of fierce hell-fires burning
Just beyond the 'burbs of heaven.
For fifty years, she slept to his left,
Three years past his dying day
She can't quite leave that empty space
His ghost still claims in hollow song
She's barely moved from that spot
Where for fifty goddamn years
He lay snoring, dreaming, kicking her
Always just a heart-ache’s reach away
© All Rights Reserved
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