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Behind a blue house on a rainy day,
a loser sits and gulps champagne.
From the sitting room you could hear the sonic boom
of an airplane on its way.

Tea with biscuits, how nice.
Stubs of tickets, jacks and dice.
Cantaloupe rinds from two separate times
and white ice cream on a plastic plate.

Inside the blue house there is fun.
Down the hallways, lots of room to run.
Keepsakes from all fifty states
but they can’t replace

the times.
Their funny and their lonely broken-hearted times.

A brand new blender in the kitchen
used to make extravagant drinks.
If you really tune in, you can listen.
You can follow the silence to its brink.

Inside the cupboard, books and alcohol.
A wristwatch with a broken face.
Remnants from relations on the mantelpiece,
and furniture from six estates.

Inside the blue house there’s a gun
under the armoire in its case.
There are two sour pictures with a son
but they can’t replace

the times.
The funny and the empty broken-hearted times.
They’re fine. They’re pictures of a face,
but they can’t replace
the times.
The funny and the lonely broken-hearted times.

Behind a blue house on a rainy day,
a loser sits and drinks champagne.
From the sitting room, you can hear the sonic boom
of an airplane on its way.

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from How A Ghost Vanishes, released April 11, 2016

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Julian Cartwright New Jersey

Julian Cartwright is a songwriter, instrumentalist, composer and arranger based in the Philadelphia area. Instagram @julian.cartwright.songs

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