Presidio Nights

from Nightfall by Trochee Trochee

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No treat or trick from gated communities
To which you lack a key code.
I’m sorry, kid. You can’t come in.
Purple gates all in my brain,
And how we worked
The first time I was in your house.
I taught you to find the sine and secant
Between three lines,
And I fed you lines.
Found our tangent in the ground floor window.
Your adobe home was a shadow
To the townhouse model my father owned.
And how your brother used to nag you
At the purple gates of The Presidio
For one good reason
Why he couldn’t have a bite-sized Hershey’s bar.
And how I used to burn my journals
On my roof within his line of sight.
The crackling glow of papery smoke
Was a star he’d never hold.

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from Nightfall, released December 14, 2018

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A chilly midnight jam in a young Michael Stipe's basement, we've stayed in the country too long.

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