Auntie Alice
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Auntie
Auntie
Bm
Alice,
Alice,
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where are you
where are you
A
now?
now?
We rung your number and they called it “disconnected.”
In a dream you come sailing out
of a pool of deep blue water.
Auntie Alice keeps spiders in her house,
feeds them earwigs and mosquitoes.
Her pink tongue comes darting out
from where her front teeth are missing.
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I went downstairs in the middle of the night
cause I heard her scratching at the door.
She fed me chocolates and said she couldn’t sleep,
asked me what the bug light was for.
Auntie Alice wears the same dress every day.
Butter turns green on her counter.
She sings me songs she learned on Christmas eve,
tells me stories about castles.
“The
E
number you have
number you have
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dialed
dialed
is
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not in service” it
not in service” it
F♯m
said,
said,
“hang
Bm
up or dial
up or dial
E
again.”
again.”
Auntie
D
Alice have you found your palace
Alice have you found your palace
E
yet?
yet?
Auntie Alice, look out for us
who think we know where we are going.
Your picture gathers dust on the fridge
and watches us keep our appointments.
Auntie Alice howling through the woods,
Auntie Alice in my dream,
somehow gone from the phone book for good.
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Life forms a
Life forms a
Bm
round you when you
round you when you
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leave.
leave.
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