
Date of issue: 07.11.2019
Record label: P.W. Elverum & Sun
Song language: English
Widows |
It’s almost Mother’s Day |
Me and the other widows will commiserate |
Alone at Montessori again |
Straddling two worlds |
Between the crush of single parenting |
And the need for wailing in the woods |
Around a slash pile burning |
Into the night with tear crusted eyes |
I know I’m overcompensating |
In this PTSD disorientation |
From my brief time in the rich part of the city |
Now my hands stink like salmon skin |
Left out in the rain in the ash |
Of the fire from last night |
I haven’t bathed in a while |
And no one’s near me |
If there’s significance in where you live |
Let it all go and follow love and intuition |
Today the tabloids told the world you separated me |
And see what’s there |
My phone began dinging more than usual |
In the open sky |
It was just like the day they found out that we’d gotten married |
Because we’re all gonna die |
Unwanted attention |
From an inhumane delirious absurd other world that keeps trying to eat you |
I woke up quivering, raw, and heartbroken again |
Took my daughter to the garbage dump |
And rifled through the free pile |
And stood next to the pit |
The crows and ravens circling spoke to us |
And we spoke back to them |
But nothing is real |
Except this one thing |
Please remember at the bookstore in the poetry corner upstairs |
I slept with my head on your lap |
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