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Everyone I'll Never See Again

from Figure One E​.​P. by The Far Stairs

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EVERYONE I’LL NEVER SEE AGAIN.
Behind me in a mirror,
I see your name written backwards.
Everyone who’s gone is your family now.
Everyone I’ll never see again.
They’re all there in a picture
in a gallery in Connemara.
The name of a place I’ve never been,
a corner in a room I’ll never see.
So long, so long.
So long, so long.
In a book about the War in Lisbon,
I see your face in a photo, smiling.
I swear I saw you yesterday
in a campaign poster on the subway.
But I know you live on Cambridge,
just a mile or two from Boston Harbor.
Everybody there is your family now.
Everybody here isn’t real to them.
Two cities can’t exist in real-time.
Two people can’t talk between them.
A sentence on the phone takes a hundred years.
A letter in the mail takes a thousand lifetimes.
I’ll never love another
who doesn’t look like you in some way.
I’ll say the same thing to everyone I see.
If I repeat it to enough of them, you’ll hear it someday:
“So long, so long.
So long, so long.”

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from Figure One E​.​P., released May 4, 2018

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