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 Please, remember me

 Happily

 By the rosebush laughing

 With bruises on my chin

 The time when

 We counted every black car passing

 Your house beneath the hill

 And up until

 Someone caught us in the kitchen

 With maps, a mountain range

 A piggy bank

 A vision too removed to mention

 Please, remember me

 Fondly

 I heard from someone you're still pretty

 And then they went on to say

 That the pearly gates

 Had such eloquent graffiti

 Like "We'll meet again"

 And "Fuck the man"

 And "Tell my mother not to worry"

 And angels with their great

 Handshakes

 Were always done in such a hurry

 Please, remember me

 That Halloween

 Making fools of all the neighbors

 Our faces painted white

 By midnight

 We'd forgotten one another

 And when the morning came

 I was ashamed

 Only now it seems so silly

 That season left the world

 And then returned

 And now you're lit up by the city

 Please, remember me

 Mistakenly

 In the window of the tallest tower

 Calling passers-by

 We're much too high

 To see the empty road at happy hour

 Gleam and resonate

 Just like the gates

 Around the holy kingdom

 With words like "Lost and found"

 And "Don't look down"

 And "Someone save Temptation"

 Please, remember me

 As in the dream

 We had as rug-burn babies

 Among the fallen trees

 We're fast asleep

 Beside the lions and the ladies

 That called you what you like

 And even might

 Give a gift for your behavior

 A fleeting chance to see

trapeze

 Swinger high as any savior

 Please, remember me

 My misery

 And how it lost me all I wanted

 Those dogs that love the rain

 And chasing trains

 The colored birds above their running

 In circles around the well

 And where it spells

 On the wall behind St. Peter

 So bright on cinder gray

 In spray paint

 "Who the hell can see forever?"

 Please, remember me

 Seldomly

 In the car behind the carnival

 My hand between your knees

 You turned from me

 And said, "The trapeze act was wonderful

 But never meant to last"

 The clowns that passed

 Saw me just come up with anger

 When it filled with circus dogs

 The parking lot

 Had an element of danger

 Please, remember me

 Finally

 And all my uphill clawing

 My dear, but if I make

 The pearly gates

 I'll do my best to make a drawing

 Of God and Lucifer

 A boy and girl

 An angel kissing on a sinner

 A monkey and a man

 A marching band

 All around the frightened trapeze swinger

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