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Isn’t That the DreamThe first christening. The coat still warm from someone’s shoulders — he wore it anyway. Also lives on Summer People.
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Heart of the Party“Keep the beat alive,” written three days before the locks changed. The kick drum is a borrowed heart. It kept.
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Worth MissingThe stranger auditions over an opening tomb. The hypothesis the whole record tests.
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Sorry I’m EarlyHe walks in on his own elegy mid-bridge and asks them to finish it. The flowers were still living at the store.
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While I Was OutThe wake, inventoried. Grief is a job — somebody poured the doubles and worked the doubles.
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Back by Popular DemandNineteen days in the drawer. The parade demanded, the lie politely requested — and the crooked banner turns out to be real.
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Triple ExposureThree testimonies, one hand. Sharp only where all three agree — and where they agree is you.
- 08
Nice to Meet You AgainThe keeper takes the stand. A hundred first impressions, every one of them true.
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Moon Over the A&PA 1983 single by a band that never existed. The law before the technology: a signal don’t die, it just gets small.
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Measures Before MiraclesSix lines in wax paper, read ten thousand times, and they held. You get the mercy or the answer — never both.
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Two Cents FlatOne string eased south on purpose — a wrong note somebody meant.
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Going-Away PartyThe send-off, catered and lit. He got good at goodbyes — that’s the wound and the résumé.
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Off BookA toast from the one leaving to the one taking the stage. Every line by heart — and the one fan at the door came back to fix a single word.
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Temporary PeopleWritten unprompted on Thanksgiving. The law, read at close: the moment still matters yet.
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Cut Me OffLast call in the middle of a sentence. Close the tab on the high note — the one who stays for teardown drops a last quarter on the house.