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Chapter XVIII: The Dove and the Soapbox

from The Memory of Good by Miriam Marston

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You found me here
wandering the streets of unrivaled mirrors,
standing so tall against the sky, which harbored no meaning.
Alarmed and unfed, I saw you there holding
a note for my head from your heart, so consoling.
A lovely word that rhymed with my tears.
A call I’ve heard, across all the years.
Here’s to the ones who are staying awake,
asking all sorts of questions,
asking why does it ache?
You and I weren’t so different
but the yelling got old.
Before it was over,
the conversation grew cold.
A favored stage, where everything I say is
a novel play in this funny game.
And each of my monarchs of choice have been
fragile and folly, see what they’ve cost me.
But all this attention was somehow redemptive;
‘til reason breaks as waves on my shore,
and sirens sound deep at my core.
Cast wide your net,
wider than any promise of vanishing ends.
Here’s to the ones who are laying down arms
for a good conversation, for a genuine spar.
You and I and the question. with no walls in between;
I was half right about you, and you about me.

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from The Memory of Good, released September 7, 2017

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Miriam Marston Portland, Oregon

I started composing when I was 10. I called one of my first songs "Nostalgia", although I can't recall what my ten year old self was so nostalgic about. Released my first album in 2000. Things got busy, but I never stopped writing. Even if it meant composing on a mostly-broken piano in the basement of a university that I wasn't even enrolled in. Enjoy all the music and reading! Pax. MM ... more

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