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Widowhood

from Critters by Just Nick

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WIDOWHOOD
COLUMBA LIVIA
(HOMING PIGEON)

Homing Pigeons were used frequently during times of war, to deliver messages from the front. The 'Widowhood' method, involves mating a pair of these birds (whom mate for life), separating them, and housing the female in a far-away cage with another male. This song follows a male pigeon, cursed by the memories of his mate, and desperate to follow the trail left by his captor's cigarette smoke, back to his true love.

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Teach your cigarette a lesson on the sink.
I’m hung down from the fencepost,
like your puppy on his leash.

Unfiltered,
lightheaded.
I can smell the smoke
to where we’re headed.

No wonder you’d felt so awful,
never ever go back to the waters of Omaha.
Little birdie blinded for a bit,
like I’d been drunk four nights out of five in the last week.

Clip empty,
unleaded.
No bargain scotch,
no luck in heaven…

Or hell,
I know I ain’t the first.
I’d be damned if I’m the last.
I’ve got this pigeon’s heart.
You’ve got an eye for emptied glass.

Some might call it ‘widowhood,’
and some might call the cops.
Oh, I’d trade all these spit-stained cigarettes
for your forget-me-nots.

Unfiltered,
lightheaded.
I’m breathin’ unfiltered,
lightheaded.

Guess I’ll see you down in hell.
That’ll be swell.

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from Critters, released April 29, 2016

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