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The Lights of Birkenhead

by Daniel Morgan

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I’m not a product of my mothers grace,
I am a reaction, a chemical reaction to her bullshit
I am not a book made up of my fathers mixed advice
Though we’ve sometimes, but not very often shared a pulpit

From that pulpit we have sung
And though that pulpit is now gone
I am a boy in 1998 inside a Mitsubishi space wagon
And the lights of Birkenhead, are so beautiful to me
From the hill on which we drove I could see them perfectly
But now the old haunts are all dangerous
My old friends are all strangers - The lights the boy used to love
Have blinked out one by one.
That mean old lady is dead now,
the old school has been pulled down - The lights the boy used to love
Have blinked out one by one.

I am not fur coat beneath my teachers bony hand
I’m a reaction a chemical reaction to her disdain
I am not a reader of the newsman’s love letters
Though we will sometimes, but not very often, share our pain

And though that pain is often fought
And though that pain is rarely sort
I am kid in September, 2001,
Watching cartoons on my bedroom floor
And the lights of Birkenhead, are so beautiful to me
From my bedroom window, I felt they were watching me
I kissed a girl by a garden shed,
I kissed a boy in his parents bed - The lights the boy used to love
Have blinked out one by one
I stole a chocolate bar and ran, I gave my pocket money to a homeless man
The lights the boy used to love have surely, all but gone.

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released September 1, 2015

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