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Sit Shiva

from MAGNIFICENT BIRD by Gabriel Kahane

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lyrics

My mother, describing her mother,
Fought back tears, it’s weird, I thought,
The intimacy of seeing someone try
Not to cry in close-up on a screen.

Cousin Lincoln told a story about the Pietà
He saw at the Metropolitan Museum;
and after a silence of some time,
Grandma turned to him and said:
“You know, I think of myself as a Jew,
but I really love Jesus.”

And we sit cross-legged on the edge of the bed,
Leaning into the laptop to hear what’s just been said,
In the manner of a modern family honoring the dead.

Aunt Susan, in her one-room schoolhouse
Sang grandma’s favorite songs, simple hymns
Of love and loss. And though her connection
Was unstable, she was able to get
Her message, more or less, across.

And we sit cross-legged on the edge of the bed,
Leaning into the laptop to hear what’s just been said,
In the manner of a modern family honoring the dead.

At the end of the afternoon,
Grandma’s grief-shattered husband,
Whom she’d met in the fall of 1939,
Milkshake at the Automat in Morningside Heights.
Before he was shipped off to Europe to fight—
Fifty years, not a word, not a sight
’Til the touchtone phone rang in 1995:

“Raymond, it’s Judith; my husband has died.”
Back to New York, and they gave it a try
And the photographs of great-grandchildren multiplied,
These two ancient lovers walking side by side—
His body ravaged, and hers turned to light—
He raised his hand to speak at last,
And everyone held their breath or gasped,
As he said, “Goodbye, my darling, goodbye.”

credits

from MAGNIFICENT BIRD, released March 25, 2022
Casey Foubert - acoustic guitars
Gabriel Kahane - electric guitars, bass, vocals, banjo, synthesizers, drum programming, piano
Joseph Lorge - electric guitar
Elizabeth Ziman - background vocals

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