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Dynamite

from Hummingbird by Sticks Calliope

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Jack was in the military, Jane was his misfortune wife, soon to be his widow, when he came back a head shook loose with dynamite. She had never seen the man they called her pa a day in her life when he took her head in his great hands with the hate that bled in from the middle east in the night. Boys are gonna be like boys, but now the boys ain't alright. When he was 17, he learned to drink until he couldn't feel a thing and that was so fine. His rage grew eloquent that night.
You can't hit him back now. He's not really there.
You tell them you were young and pretty once but ain't it common as dirt. Now you keep yourself quiet, flitting like a moth, scared to get burnt. Twenty years from now you're going to look at your girl and wonder what it was she learnt. If a bad brain is forever, and you can't make her work.
And you can't hit him back now. He's not really there. You're going to feel it when you're older - you're going to feel it, but not the way you feel it now.

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from Hummingbird, released September 3, 2012

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