Do Us Part

from The Blue Pineapple Couch EP by The Ticket

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Original lyrics:
Never so comforted by the pleasant surprise
rainy college AM and your footsteps on linoleum
Bare soles slightly slapping like the first drops of
an unexpected summer rain.

Flowers by the side of the road
Cold under the air conditioners blind hum;

Where smiles stemmed
And cheeks were ripening strawberries
The air was sweetened with the aroma of rose tea
And the couple toasted their marriage with honey
Imported brie and brand-name colas.

A guest during the merger of two families
At best

Later, following a funeral for the father of a close friend
A bundle of flowers cloistered by a dead-end side of the road
Commemorated uncomfortable pressure to grow the back of the throat
Like the benighted awareness felt when cradling an unrequited lover
Svelte as she sleeps, the arm numbs
and I succumb: gardening passenger burying motherly pains of never wanting to let go

Examined a rose petal, table garnish
Pregnant then aborted, resoundingly plump in color albeit tarnished
Blemish on my peripheral vision
Like the tear in the eye of the bride
Love stricken and afraid of excision

She no longer a lone stem flourishing next to him
and mortal in newborn virgin forest knew that
Death was a florist – gentle-handed meticulous judiciary
Reminder that imperfection is not just beautiful but necessary

And in the dark I am my cousin’s infant child
Innocent, warily curious and deadly
Like a toddler picking strawberries.

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from The Blue Pineapple Couch EP, released October 2, 2012

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