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Chapter XXIV: Old No More

from The Memory of Good by Miriam Marston

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This long indecision and the joy that it stalled,
re-living the vision of the last time he called.
There were signs that I wasted,
there were poems I laid here
on the line as a strange mirror of each wondering sigh.
What of the memories holding you back,
and all that you’ve done and all that you lack,
what of the praises that you fear may never come;
what of the treasures that you thought were only yours,
and your paper cuts, they’re nothing much
in light of this:
the day when nobody dies.
Tell me a story with no ending at all.
Save me from boring, a life empty of falls.
Those lovelier ways and their livelier days,
suddenly they seem okay.
And they’re stronger than kings
and the songs that they sing fill me with something to say.
What of your latest attempts to be good,
honest and thin and misunderstood,
slowly eroding each conclusion I had found.
Broken enough now to consider how I’ve lived
and this waking up, it’s picking up
in light of this –
the day when nobody dies.

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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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