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Jun 2012
You follow a footstep's echoes leading down a hall to a room.
There is music playing tiny bells with moving parts.
Here the shadows make things ugly; an effect quite undesirable.
The bold and yellow daylight grows like ivy across the wall
and it bounces off the painted porcelein, tiny dancing doll.
Her body spins. As she pirouettes again the world suddenly seems small.
On an off-white, subtle morning, you stretch your legs in the front seat;
and the road has made a vacuum where our voices used to be.
And you lay your head onto my shoulder; pour like water over me.
So if I just exist for the next ten minutes of this drive that would be fine,
and all of the trees that line this curb would be rejoicing and alive.
Soon all the joy that pours from everything makes fountains of your eyes
because you finally understand the movement of a hand waving goodbye.
Conor Oberst
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