Empty Apartment

from Coffee and Rivers by Jennifer Stuart

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Sitting in the dark
in your empty apartment
the power is off, you're at work, it's almost spring
I'm leaving in the morning
I'll leave one thing or another
So you know I'm coming back,
you're the only one I'd ever run to
in this town, in this town, in this town

In this town, in this place
that just surrounds the hair falling across your face
when you wake up in the morning
and put the coffee on
and you float into the kitchen
like some kind of ghost, some apparition
that just slid through the pages
of a Truman Capote book

You used to call me "love"
but you stopped when you learned of
my desire to carry more than one in my heart
so leave the lights off, if you wish
the water still runs, the beer still sits
sweating on the desk next to those stacks of poetry
those words that hit me like smoke
starting in my chest
and hanging around on all of my clothes

On my clothes, in my hair
in my memories of you standing there
looking at me like I could fix something inside of you so deep
and make your smile run like water run like rain run like snow
run like the train
I would if I could and I can't stop, I can't stop
trying.

So if you pay the electric bill
I'll get some two dollar wine
we'll put the record player on
and tonight will be fine
you can use the typewriter
I'll use the spare
you can lean over my shoulder,
say "Did you get anything good over there?"
anything good, anything good, anything good..

anything good, anything great
we'll play Leonard Cohen, we'll play Tom Waits,
and the music will leak out
into the humid summer night
and I'll wonder if I'll ever settle
if I could ever find anything better
than the sound of your fingers on the keys
when I'm leaving in the morning.

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from Coffee and Rivers, track released April 17, 2019

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When the big stuff gets put into small lines, it feels more manageable, to me at least.

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