{"id":886,"date":"2009-08-20T23:21:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T04:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/?p=886"},"modified":"2009-08-26T14:26:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T19:26:13","slug":"886","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/20\/886\/","title":{"rendered":"Back at the Lake House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Each relationship different, bare
\nThe lakehouse is empty, but our soul’s still there.
\nUnder the water, near the island of trees
\nthe shallows have grown years of mossy memories.<\/p>\n

We swim the narrows into the mauve and purple light;
\nThe boat dock’s restless, and the dog’s are howling for the night.
\nWe don’t think about people anymore but fish.
\nOur slick rubber noses run us through the cool eddies motionless.<\/p>\n

They really are<\/em> on Cape Cod
\nScotch plaid shorts, knit polo, feeling like gods.
\nThinking of what people really like to do
\nA beautiful woman, bright red shoes
\n(Come see through me, sing the blues!<\/em>)
\nI wish I could go back to my time
\nAnd lose my ever friggin’ mind.
\nThe whisper handed slew
\nThe bobble banded boo
\nThe only thing I worry about this late
\nIs avoiding the sticky eyed gate
\nI can beat this with a smile
\nI can wait up for you for a while
\nWe’ll tease the clouds to crack a blush
\nAnd escape the mind numbing feeling of the morning rush.
\nI dance like a cloud
\nI choose to be free and wild
\nI’ll perch in the sycamore tree
\nJump and then be free
\nI choose not to be better
\nAs in choosing to write a letter
\nThere are boring people know more than me
\nWho’ve dug up a hole underneath their dreams
\nA new path is ground
\nSssh, don’t be too loud!
\nLet’s dance the boogie dance
\nGet all cute and caught up in romance.
\nBig blocks of iron are thundering down
\nExcept these don’t make a sound.
\nWe’re the ones who have the need
\nTo take the bastards out and punish them with greed.
\nHave you noticed it’s not the being
\nBut the leaving?
\nBallyhoos streak the sky
\nDesperately knowing just where we lye.
\nLet’s capture the blue eyed goat at his door
\nI don’t feel like being here anymore.
\nThe cigarette ashes poke through the hornets’ nest late
\nThey’ve determined to go it alone leaving it up to fate
\nTheses are the lovelies, the ties that bind
\nWe’ll be allright another year, another century, with them by our side.
\nSpaghetti for breakfast; get ready for tea!
\nWe drift through the eons in bliss with our lovely coterie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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