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Grave Mistakes

from Sway by Dry Wedding

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lyrics

it only took
42 years
for him to learn
how to die
 
that medicine
it did him in
a long drawn
suicide
 
for years he slept
arms crossed on chest
a dress rehearsal
for his denouement
 
he kept a list
of his ailments
a small lined sheet
his confidant
 
body resigned
organs wrung dry
swelling appendages
yellow of the eye
 
for months he knew
and sat by
the narrowing
window of time

slammed shut
lowered blinds
a selfish act
or to be kind

father, did you spare us a goodbye
or were you afraid to
concede to the end of your life

I was the lone son purified
reformed on the day he died
in my own image, a master of my own fate
inheriting his grave mistakes

a swastika
inked in his flesh
constant regret
carelessly hidden

just like the cheap
vodka and speed
underneath
his workbench

paranoia
took the form of
a briefcase with
a loaded gun

workplace arrest
community service
every weekend
that we’d visit

memories retrieved
theories conceived
unsound accounts
storytelling
a few tight lips
absolving him

unsettled pain
the high price paid
for the unexplained
being exchanged
for the wisdom of bearing witness
to my father’s mistakes

I am the lone son purified
reformed on the day he died
in my own image, a master of my own fate
dismantling his grave mistakes

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from Sway, released December 17, 2021

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Dry Wedding Portland, Oregon

PDX Post-Cowpunk

Davey Ferchow
Jarrod Green
Chadwick Ferguson
Tom Fuller

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