Caveat Emptor

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CAVEAT EMPTOR

The children roll around in the grass
Where do all our vanished memories gather?
The year your father died,
The endless summer nights
The pregnancies, we tally them up
And now the women they look at me like I’m a puff of air
Like there is nothing to see
Like I’m not even there

But in my whirring ceiling-fan fantasies
I dream of old lovers and I’m blue
Even for you,
For my former, lighter body
For empty Halloweens
And quiet, kitchen table-mornings

But the kids, they do fine
Frankie can be a handful
But he’s so full of life you can’t hold it against him
And Emily’s almost nine if you can believe it
We did alright, no other way to see it

But in my whirring ceiling-fan fantasies
I dream of old lovers and I’m blue
Even for you,
For my former, lighter body
For empty Halloweens
And quiet, kitchen table-mornings

Tonight I feel tired and grey
And you, next to me, a thousand miles away
But there’s still velocity in these veins
Another one of my growing pains
Yet, when I think about it
Seems there was just no way around it

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from Jake and the Leprechauns, released December 16, 2006

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