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Perfect Letdown

When you asked if there was anyone
in particular I’d been crushing on

maybe I should’ve held my tongue
but it’s always slipping through my
slick fingers.

I only wanted to see myself looking beautiful
in the mirror pool of your clear eyes.
I dove right into the shallow end.
Thought I could make whatever depths I wanted to
see myself as swimming in.

Heaven knows I’ve been a fool
and every day a little olde.r
When this persona fades away
what’s left may barely fill a thimble.

I only wanted to see myself looking beautiful
in the mirror pool of your clear eyes.
I was blind I couldn’t see.
You broke the spell and set me free from
all of my heartache and ruin
my sad greedy begging
the looming disasters
my grand empty gestures.

***

You take my hand in the dream world and
we walk from Broad to Main
past the magic morning glory vines
where no yearning is ever in vain.
Where the songs belong to songbirds
and the air is cool and fine
where if you want to make me sweat
I can respond in kind.
No hammers smashing rhinestones here.
No birds hung ‘round our necks.
No mad specters from the past or
hiding around the next turn.
I watch you stand inside the window
backlit by the sun
digging through a plastic bin
of old but useful stuff.

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from Timothy Bailey & the Humans, released September 30, 2022

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