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Linda & Stuart

from MAGNIFICENT BIRD by Gabriel Kahane

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lyrics

Linda and Stuart, trapped in their apartment
Seventy-ninth and Madison, the one they bought
Fifty years ago. No fancy lobby, no baroque Fresco.

The deliverymen, in their light blue surgical masks,
Knock twice, leave groceries double-bagged at the door,
Then cross the street back to the shop and the basement below.

Last week I called and asked, “How’s your relative stock of despair, today?”
Linda replied, saying, “Gabriel, I know I really shouldn’t complain,
But each month this persists is one that we’re not getting back,
For we’ve little time left on this spinning marble.”
Her point of view I can’t dismiss—and what is there to say, in fact?—
So I’m left with hollow platitudes to mumble.

Straining to hear a few bars of the Upper East Side,
I find I’ve not allowed myself, haven’t really had the time
To miss New York, the freak show light.

That universe of regret that I keep locked in a wooden box,
With all the other thoughts and self-pity,
Maybe sometime yet I’ll hop a plane and catch a taxi
Downtown, just to hear the sound of the old city

Sirens and the subway and the slurred words of the shirt-sleeved men
On the town to toast the close of a deal
That shuttered the last factory in every town
In Michigan, where the union boys are stone-faced at the wheel.

Linda tells me she’s taking a writing class
On the art of the short story, and I say, hey that’s great, ’cause
We all need a way to make sense of the world.

credits

from MAGNIFICENT BIRD, released March 25, 2022
Ethan Gruska - sound design
Gabriel Kahane - synthesizers, vocals, electric guitars
Chris Morrissey - electric-bass
Amelia Meath - background vocals
Ted Poor - drums, piano

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