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The Long List of Names

from Albatross by Marc M Cogman

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All the vitamins, guidebooks, science, and myth, all the calendar-counting, it adds up to this: radio silence in a hospital gown and night coming fast as the light dies down. So we tangle like a knot at the foot of the bed and cry until morning comes shuffling in. And this house will never be the same one we left, where nothing can ever seem happy again.

So I might stay off the ground and circle like a sea bird, always looking skyward and never make a sound.

In the face of disaster, two roads diverge and no one gets home without blood on their shirt, from the differences now that you just can’t ignore like the long list of names, buried deep in a drawer. Because you’ll carry these things now wherever you go, they’ll follow your footsteps, unwelcome ghosts, forever a little more weight to tow, and somehow you’d rather just pull it alone.

So I might stay off the ground and circle like a sea bird, always looking skyward, and never make a sound, alone and feeling fine. Maybe in a future life, in a future life.

Off a highway stop in the south and west, I lay on the table and laid bare my chest to the needle’s rough buzz and the skin flooding dark, as it scratched an ink-black star over my heart, so in my reflection I might see the grief until it’s one more common-place scar on me, just a new tooth you tongue til it’s part of the scene and you give up on figuring out what it all means.

So I might stay off the ground and circle like a sea bird, always looking skyward, and never make a sound, alone and feeling fine, maybe in another life.

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from Albatross, released February 25, 2014
Marc M. Cogman - vocals, acoustic guitar
Andrew Perusi - electric bass
Steve McDonald - electric guitar
Kyle Fredrickson - electric guitar
Chad Copelin - Conn organ, B3 organ
Karen Harmon - violin
Hank Charles - piano
Patrick Hanlin - drums and percussion

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