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Give me your pocket
In which to place
A little of my history’s feeling
So it won’t go to waste
Wherever you are
I know this will find you
But I won’t be long
I’m always just a little behind you

Sometimes I detour through those lanes
With my shopping list
Hoping to trap some experience that I
In the meantime might have missed

A faded suede jacket
An ill-fitting shirt
Which shall I wear?
Which is worse?
But there’s an odd conflagration
I was told
That comes about you
When you get old

I’m chasing through others’ feelings
Ditching the medics, opening the clam
But with the microscope of doing so
I’ve forgotten who I am

I noticed his openness
His honesty that night
With me in the old, old room
Lit solely by firelight
Not the last throw of the dice but
The last wheezing of breath
A last grasp for connection
Though he’d be satisfied with much less

Here are the time’s possibilities
If you see them, you can walk in
A landscape contravening one
Of guilt, of blame, of sin

And in your pocket
You will find my folded note
Journaling a time
When I was just about afloat
Through automatic writing
Or lights high in the sky
Or via a leaf that flutters with no reason
I expect your kindly reply

And the open skies are watching
Benevolent and grand
They gave me writing materials
With a warm squeeze to my hand

Sometimes the gentle tides of yesteryear
Raise me to my feet
When I’ve no data to enter
And I’m ready for a little sleep

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from What was left, released March 31, 2023

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Jon Airdrie and the Enablers Newport, UK

The Enablers is a band/project having the central notion of bringing a core number of people together to fashion a collection of songs, and then to record these songs, capturing the mood of the time - the mood both of the compositions themselves and of the band for the project's duration. To date, there have been eight Enablers. ... more

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