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May 30, 2016
MY PHONE BEGAN ringing just as I pulled into work A glance at the screen had ht of the na this call ever since I’d walked out of Ma before, and was surprised it had taken hi to ream me Or maybe I was surprised that she hadn’t immediately run home to tell her brother about what I’d said
I shut offbreath as I answered the call "Yeah, Jagger?"
"You working today?"
My brow pinched when he didn’t ilanced up at the building in front ofout the word
"When you get a break today, can you do a favor for me?"
My initial surprise deepened when I realized Charlie hadn’t er went on, but my frustration over her slowly filled my veins once the favor was laid out for hed through my nose
Grey would killup a discussion with Jagger right then that I didn’t want to have
After a few seconds, I conceded "Sure Yeah, I’ll be there"
Charlie
May 30, 2016
Who listened to your stories sad songs
The shoulder that you cried on
Out on that cliff you walked on
When
I RAPIDLY TAPPED the edge of es of my notebook as all of the words in the world failed me
"When" I said under my breath "When youno"
I let ined a simple melody, and tried to hear my words interwoven with the notes, but each ti felt off about what I had already written down, and I knew that when I fixed it, I would be able to go on
Myand write poetry, which had turned into writing songs, just as she had taken credit for Jagger’s a nearby Saying it was all because she’d na Stones, and had hadup
Except she hadn’t really been around while ere growing up, and--as she chose to forget--I spentnovels, and would have preferred to have the ability to write theure out how to expand s that filled this notebook when inspiration hit
And this songthese words were begging to get free, but ht with Ben away for years
I ran through the words inon the paper to write down a few more words that had burst into my innings of the lunch rush caet out of the booth and s a handful of menus, I led the first to my section at the back of the restaurant as the words I had worked so hard to unscramble slid from my mind
It wasn’t until I reached into the far left pocket of my waist apron for a check holder nearly an hour later that I realized why un