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I remember getting out of the car just as the rain came, thinking I would live forever.
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She was laying carpet
00:53
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She was laying carpet when the postman brought the butterfly wings she'd ordered from the Happy Store.
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I walked up to school
01:03
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I walked up to school to meet her, to walk her home in the wild swirling snow.
I like to think that my friends never die, they’re just always at a different bar than me.
(Song subbed mine for me)
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All night it rained
01:15
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All night it rained and all day and then all night and all day it rained again.
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It was so light
01:03
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It was so light, was so gorgeous swimming after her, in that undertow before we both disappeared.
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I interview in
02:08
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I interview in a soft sheer fabric made from fibrous pineapple leaves but didn't get the job.
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I remember how guilty you seemed, even though you just kept doing it, just kept destroying me.
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When the diagnosis arrived, I marveled at all those years I'd spent worrying over nothing at all.
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In the tavern
01:00
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In the tavern we removed our skin and asked the bartender to just pour the alcohol in.
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At 5 a.m.
01:20
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At 5 a.m., it's dark, by seven all the books glimmer in the newly lambent morning light.
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What did you do here
01:43
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What did you do here? I tried to find the sacred things, I went looking every day.
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I made myself
01:07
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I made myself a beautiful building, and then I found some bricks to smash the windows with.
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Sure it's fun to play pretend, to wear a balloon hat and ride a porcupine to school.
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I sat all night
00:26
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I sat all night watching the soft rain showering the streetlights glowing as night dreamt of morning.
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I will find a new way, one they say I can't go, one I imagine for myself.
I like to think the willow's tresses breathe in the wind, and then breathe the wind away.
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I asked the oracle
00:42
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I asked the oracle why we're supposed to ask questions of oracles and not icicles or basketballs.
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The blue light
00:43
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The blue light was so blue this morning when the blue light grew in place of black.
What I need is just one more morning, scribbling there, the radio towers flashing through the fog.
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Ivory Smith Seattle, Washington
Ivory Smith is a Seattle-based composer, performer, producer and teacher. She grew up studying piano, attended Cornish College of the Arts where she studied voice and composition, and subsequently graduated from Evergreen State College with a BA in Electronic Media. The breadth of her work is far reaching - from opera and jazz to building her own electronic instruments. ... more
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