Black Bear & Night Falls - Boy with a Butterfly Knife

The doctors watched us watch you die
Then went home to their kids
The undertaker smoked a cigarette
While we tossed dirt on the lid
I close my eyes and try hard
To remember
The feeling when I was little
And you'd toss me in the water
Raindrops dissolving
On the glass of the skylight
Glinting memory
Of a boy with a butterfly knife
Glossy magazines
The smell of ink and CK-1
Last song of the countdown
On the tip of the DJ's tongue
State park to the quick mart
Backlit buttons pop machine
Root beer from a silver can
The smell of gasoline
Something cooking on the grill
Grown-ups we could trust
Listen, it's a whippoorwill
Calling through the dusk
Dreams of Florida
That pristine apartment
Hush of central air-co
And plush wall to wall carpet
Moonlight through Venetian blinds
Striped shadows cut the corner
Cicadas orchestrated
On grandpa's tape recorder
Nostalgia tastes metallic
Copper oxidized by time
Faded green patina on the things
That used to shine
Love is in the details
And everybody knows
Can't stop the river
From going where it goes
Stand by me
Taped off TV
Is how I see your fifties
Buzz cuts and jeans with cuffs
Switchblade toothpick bullies
Lollipop on the radio
Cherry flavored Pez
Offscreen unhappy parents
Caught up in their own mess
Dandelion war paint
Pine cone grenades
Legacies of violence
Naturalized from the arcade
The stillness of the body
After the breathing stopped
The indifference of gravity
Heartless ticking of the clock
Thinking it was empty
I walked into the room
Only to realize
That the room was full of you
Is this the afterlife?
An archeology of stuff
Ruins and reminders
That will never be enough
Chlorine and Coca-Cola
Bare feet on warm cement
Humidity was good to me
Be good to me again
Love is in the details
And everybody knows
Can't stop the river
From going where it goes
I close my eyes and try hard
To remember
The feeling when I was little
And you'd toss me in the water

Written by:
Sam Beebe

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