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Epilogue: Where to from here

from The Memory of Good by Miriam Marston

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Born again, lost again, when does it stop,
a train that can’t find its way home.
And all of your songs they insist that I’m strong,
but fail where they try to console.
I was looking for some good distraction
to keep me away from a holy reaction.
Why so secret, your sacred hill to climb?
An adage away from the end of the race,
but why does it feel like a start?
A dusty old book with its pages so sharp
piercing right through to the heart
And all the while you were taking a lover
and lighting a candle and thinking it over.
Why so secret, your sacred count of time?
What does it mean to be right only relatively?
I’ve been trying so hard to raise my voice.
What does it mean to say: best just to walk your way.
Livin’ every day on this part-time joy.
All the laws we broke just to get here;
is it nice here, though we fight here?
All because of some inclination
too impatient for elation of a fleeting kind.
I have a list of a hundred ways that I could be perfectly fine.
A remedy made for the ache in my heart was sold to me cheap at the time.
Now the cost of a splendid illusion
is leaving me spinning and rich in confusion.
But this faint light has saved my wondering mind.

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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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