Linda (No Memento)

from L by James Jefferys

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James Jefferys - Linda (No Memento)

A big, unfed and spacious day;
Dig instead into the Cretaceous clay

But loyal to the course of curses
You, buoyant, bobbed up to the surface
To check whose lives you’ve yet to hinder
Yet we’re deprived, lovely Linda

Why am I forever explaining
To the clever as well as the layman
Why she is all that’s cancerous?
Mean, appalling, rancorous,
Linda

You’re bubbles in the catacombs,
A Jacquard loom of out-of-tune
Beads falling from a broken necklace,
And me in the distance, calling you reckless

Why am I forever explaining
To the clever as well as the layman
Why she is all that’s cancerous?
Mean, appalling, rancorous,
Linda

I condemned as pathetic
When lesser people, almost magnetic
Followed the famous too far –
Mocked your ballistic frenzy
Until the mystic chose to send me
Under that bar…
When the house of your head is broken into
Linda leaves you with no memento
Of life as it was
And what’s pittance for some
For you will come
At a crazy kind of cost

Why am I forever explaining
To the clever as well as the layman
Why she is all that’s cancerous?
Mean, appalling, rancorous,
Linda

Kick back, now… Isn’t it nicer
To admit this is part
Of a long, hard cycle?

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from L, released October 21, 2014

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