Alas, posterity.
Alack, such sincerity.
I lay my white crown round.
I load it down.
High school papers' honorific, Acrobatic headlines.
Long lost 5k charities and small town race times.
The animated remnants of a life before I knew you,
and you were mine.
Alas, posterity.
Alack, such sincerity.
We lay white arrows 'round.
We load it down.
Stillborn eloquence and evidence of European tours.
Still-resolving photos close enough to see your pores.
The annotated remnants of a life I lived behind you,
when I was yours.
Once, all alone in a red October,
wound down vainglorious in clover.
Frowns found under words of a Turk in Dover,
now lines you'd hide web-woven over.
But unsung liturgies, obituaries written to the sun.
Inundated pages old enough to make you young.
Commemorate the remnants of a life in twenty-aught-few,
when we were one.
Alas, posterity.
Alack, such sincerity.
You laid your white brow round,
and now,
and now, I load it down.
credits
from The National Archives,
released October 26, 2013
Ben Mericli - lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Laurel Halsey - harmony, accordion
Michael Erisman - trumpet
Ray Remesch - bass
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