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Your Smiths Record

from Norton Critical Edition by Trochee Trochee

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On the day before you came aboard as student supervisor,
The bastards in HR all gathered me and my fellow student workers
And they told us you were gay, and just to be aware of that.
You can imagine how that went down -
Twenty-nine, clumsy, and reliably shy
Made a loathed authority to a squadron of college boys.
A daily depot of hoi polloi each weaponized with a rogue’s eye for detail.
I never knew quite what to say, but I stayed out of their way
And sometimes smiled at impressions of you, lilting isogloss,
Or less conceptually - we mocked the way you talked.
Your nervous eyes so quick to look away
As if any moment you weren’t seeing it
Was a moment we weren’t doing it,
Or a moment we weren’t thinking it.
Soft spoken reservoirs of circumstance,
When the lines got cold we’d maybe chat a few minutes
About the “Now Playing” on your Spotify desktop app.
You said, “I hitchhiked out to Oakland just to see him,
A few of us waited at the airport until his plane came in,
But in his way he was surrounded,
So we barely got a glimpse after seven hundred miles,
It was all still worth the trip though just to hear him sing ‘Still Ill’”
And the axis reappeared as the next call bleated in,
And I spent the rest of my shift talking Freshmen
Through application fees, enrollment fees, Campus housing placement fees.
On the day before you left your post,
You brought a gift for me,
I locked eyes with a first pressing.
Even now I see you standing
As the rogues they all start staring.
And the phones they all stop ringing (they all start staring).
Even now it overwhelms me (they all start staring).
Here alone in headphones listening,
There’s a light, and
We lock eyes.

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from Norton Critical Edition, released November 22, 2019

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