Eerie Nothingness - Eat Static

Sweet kid, what is this world we're giving you? Smoldering and fascist with no mother Are you dreaming about a crow? In the middle of November we went back into the woods Right after breakfast to see if we could see this past August's forest fire zone On the hill above the lake, the sky was low and the wind cold The trail was closed At the barricade I stood listening In my backpack you were sleeping with her hat pulled low All the usual birds were gone or freezing It was all silent except the sound of one crow Following us as we wove through the cedar grove I walked and you bobbed and dozed Sweet kid, we were watched and followed and I thought of Genevieve Sweet kid, I heard you murmur in your sleep "Crow," you said, "Crow" And I asked, "Are you dreaming about a crow?" And there she was

I can't get the image out of my head Of when I held you right there And watched you die Upstairs in the back bedroom of our house Where we have lived for many years Your last gasping breaths I see it again and again As the breeze blew in The room I still don't go in at night Because I see you Your transformed, dying face will recede with time Is what our counselor said Who we walked to every Monday holding hands Slower every week with your breathing Until we had to drive But then only two months after you died Our counselor died All at once, her empty office with no light on As if her work was done We are all always so close to not existing at all Except in the confusion of our survived-bys grasping at the echoes Today our daughter asked me if mama swims I told her, "Yes, she does And that's probably all she does Now." What was you is now borne across waves Evaporating

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