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Picnic Table
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Alix Olson
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We sat outside
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at the picnic table,
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drinking beer and smoking cigarettes.
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I asked you to take out your barrettes, you said yeah, and as you glanced up,
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Your hair danced up and down.
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I smiled, you got shy, you said ‘don’t smile’,
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I said ‘why’, you said ‘just don’t’,
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I said ‘okay, I won’t’.
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And I smiled.
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And your skin caught like wildfire,
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like there was no need for the sun,
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You placed a finger on my cheek,
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you said ‘that had to be done’.
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You carved something like a comma
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And I wondered what would come.
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We went inside, I pet your cat,
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you said ‘I think she’s lonely,
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I think she needed that’.
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I said ‘are you lonely too?’
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You said, ‘no girl, that kind of talk won’t do’.
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You said ‘the futon’s kind of lumpy,
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but the bed’s pretty smooth’.
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And then I thought about her laughing heart and all the tears that make us grow
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And I looked into your smiling eyes and all the lines that take me so, so,
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So much further than I intended to go. I said
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‘thanks for the bed
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I think the lumps will have to do’.
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You said
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‘it’s better that way’.
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I said ‘yeah, I think so too..."
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And then I thought about her laughing heart
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and all the lines that make it
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And I tucked that heart into the cradle of my brain
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cause I’d never want to break it.
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But I still picture your hair sometimes,
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dancing all wild in the dark
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I still wonder about that comma carved
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so curiously hard and sweet.
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And yeah, sometimes I finish that sentence
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you left there on my cheek.
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'Cause you know us poets,
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we like our moments complete.
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