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Ceremony

from Mistakes of Memory by Gilbert Neal

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lyrics

Broken boy and feral kitten,
But they bonded just the same,
Tiny blackened mittens,
So “Mittens” was its name,
And the boy moved Mittens’ family,
To a box inside a shed,
Lined it with a blanked,
And went on off to bed.

The care he used to shelter them,
Domesticated, loyal friends,
Just a touch of something like control,
Gentle mercy for to fill a hole,
Surely someone to reward him then,
Light a candle no one else could see,
Maybe this would have a different end,
Something finally that he controlled...

Scent of moldy clothes and cedar,
As the sunlight arched inside,
Would his new friends play willingly,
Would their insolence subside?
He’d pit them against each other,
In unknowable charades,
And why were they not grateful,
For the shelter he had made?

A gentle pushing had become a shove,
A subtle tapping would become a war,
A bloody ritual of scratched-up hands,
As tiny Mittens’ eyes and voice implored,
“The gift you’ve given is a wonder, true,
And I am thankful to my god for thee,
But there is nothing in my love for you,
That means that you can have control of me...”

It died a few days later,
In the heat haze of disease,
And like some kind of Braille highway,
Body overrun by fleas,
Its tiny eyes still open,
Its little mouth so dry,
As it tried to climb the stairway,
To say one last goodbye.

He took the body to a neighbor’s yard,
Nobody saw him as he threw side-arm,
To meet its maker like the ones before,
Messiah mercy on a faceless farm,
And as he walked behind his secret shed,
A little mewling in the tallest weeds,
He stopped to greet another innocent,
And for a second, he could feel again...

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from Mistakes of Memory, released July 31, 2020
©2020 Wampus Multimedia. Words and music by Gilbert Neal (Autoholic Friend Music).

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