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The Smoke

from Vigil on Swan by Trochee Trochee

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I wasn’t there at the Safeway where
Our Congresswoman got shot in the parking lot.
I wasn’t there, I wasn’t there.
I wasn’t there, I was barely here at all.
I wasn’t anywhere, but when the smoke sucked you in,
I was there.

And by the time I arrived, everybody was high.
He had the KGUN 9 live feed
Hooked up through his new Apple TV.
You were on the couch shaking and crying and barely watching.

Call it vain, call it valiant: called our parents, killed the Valium.
But that day was the start of so much of our own pain.

I have memories inside me of collecting monetary contributions.
I was sixteen, just driving, it was her very first campaign.
I never voted, you knew better. You were twenty and her intern.

You woke up sick that day, called out of work that day,
All that went down at the Safeway,
You should have been there.
That’s what I heard you say as KGUN 9 read the names
And the President said he’d shortly be there to read us a prayer.
“It’s okay to feel scared.”

There were others I knew better.
You and I were never that close.
You were on the couch and our friends rolled spliffs.
I just watched you through the smoke.

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from Vigil on Swan, released June 30, 2017

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