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from The Match Factory Girl by SZ

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I wonder what flashed before your eyes
the last time you took a breath of air in this world
did some saints in plain disguise
take you or leave you cold and curled up
on the bed of nails you built on the sly
with a nail or two that I supplied
I lost the language I don’t even try
to remember the words we used instead of goodbye

I remember the years you lived on a shoestring
with four bass strings, your soul too young to cling
to the past as it burns as the century turns

one late afternoon you flew in from the west
hoping that you were right on time
but the land you dreamed of ceased to exist
after the countdown at the end of eighty-nine
maybe I’ll see you again when this life fades
maybe you won’t be so blue
or long for narrow streets of Belgrade
where languid young women fall for you

I remember the years you lived on a shoestring
with four bass strings, your soul too young to cling
to the past as it burns as the century turns

that black leather jacket on those frail shoulders of yours
the morning you left the “Old World” one final time
and where did I go? I disappeared of course
In a tunnel under construction in nineteen ninety-nine

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from The Match Factory Girl, released March 13, 2021

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