That Time Before It Was Known

from Sturdy Little Men by The Admiral's Boy

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That Time Before it Was Known

In that time when all was quiet, not before dawn, the other time when the streets were barren, the cars stopped helter skelter, the street lamps bent westward. That time when the wind whistled, keening, a high grieving note. I ran down, I don't know why but i did, I ran along looking for something to remind me of the day you gave me the one bright red thornless rose. Having carefully stripped the stem for me so as not to injure my hands before the match, infections of the dermis being quite prevalent in that time just before the last afflictions. I was very touched by your so generous gesture of affection and the more so as the rose slowly withered and you were stricken out of the blue as so many others had been, were, would be and started to wither yourself, taking to the couch in sight of the rose, its withering a mirror to your own tragedy and it all happening so quickly, quite quickly, too fast it seemed to shed any tears. Oh but the crying came later, much later and wouldn't stop, till I bed down in a lake of tears and felt as dry as a husk to be blown along by the next wind east.

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from Sturdy Little Men, released October 31, 2013

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