I/don't get/many things right the first time...
in fact/I am told/that a lot
Now I know all the wrong turns/
the stumbles and falls/
brought me here...
And/where was I/before the day/
that I first saw your lovely face?
Now I see it every day, and I know.
That I am...I am...I am the luckiest...
Next door/there's an old man/who lived to his nineties and
one day/passed away/in his sleep.
and his wife/she stayed for a couple of days/And passed away.
I'm sorry, I know that's a/strange way to tell you that I know/
we belong.
That I know...
That I am...I am...the luckiest.
--Ben Folds
16 December 2003
etchings on old elephant bones by
the reified bean
in the year of the sojourn
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
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