Fledge

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verses:

Mr Jackrabbit said to his bride

Your crown of roses makes you lovely as light

Now as I run down this rainy spring road

The primroses bloom and poke holes in my toes

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We were so young when they found us that day

We bled like the berries that grew up by the lake

Ripped that crown all woven and curled

The rain coming down like the end of the world

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I paced that room, and for the first time I prayed

I cut the wings off the birds who came too close to my chain

I stitched them on with a needle and thread

Gagged myself with a sheet that I tore off the bed

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Mr Jackrabbit got awfully low

Threw himself in the river when the bed overflowed

Swan downstream where he met a blackbird

A nest of skin is the last I heard

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I fled to the track as the sun came up

And my wings came loose with their sticky old blood

I’m off like a shot, I’m off after that train

And over the hills come the smell of the rain

And over the hills comes the smell of the rain