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Epithalamium

from Sick Yellow Flower by buttercup

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“easy to find, in your face
a silence or a tower of grace”*
tiny fingers upon the cake
I denied my franchise
in a gazebo for love’s sake

if you had to arrange it again
would you elect this name, this day?
if you’re feeling blue under the veil?

satin rustles like snow on aspens
near Grand Marais near the lake
a bride at the turn of the century
“so crooked to move as a capitalist
a cancer, or a fresh young flower”*

as you sashay down the aisle
I know you, you know me
if you had to arrange it again would you?
would you?

Mary Beth the treeline swells with the wedding bells
Mary Beth the treeline swells with the wedding bells
Mary Beth in America but it’s so far north
Mary Beth the treeline swells but you feel like hell
marry us in America, almost Canada
Mary Beth, marry us, Mary

* from the poem “A Bride in the 30’s” by W.H. Auden

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from Sick Yellow Flower, released March 4, 2005
Produced by Mark Rubinstein. Song written by Erik Sanden (Kindfrankenstein Music ASCAP)

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