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                                          On Seventh Avenue
                                            by Lisa Scarboro

  Here we are again...
  apart.
  I donÕt know where you are.
  I can only wonder
  and the waiting is endless
  here on Seventh Avenue
  and every car sounds like yours
  and the cigarettes burn
  and the blue smoke drifts up and away
  and out of sight like you are.
  YouÕve got Jack with you riding shotgun
  and youÕre on the road again just like old times
  and IÕm sitting here with pen and paper
  writing this just to have something to do
  just like old times on Seventh Avenue..
  Who did you keep warm last night?
  It wasnÕt me is all I know.
  I heard theyÕre predicting rain today,
  but I think rain came yesterday,
  red and barefooted under a hot Georgia sun.
  WouldnÕt take very long to reach Alabama
  unless it moves north.
  Is it gloomy everywhere today,
  or just on Seventh Avenue?
  IÕd walk away from everything if I could,
  but a million little cords of responsibility have
  me tied down here
  and so I light another cigarette
  and try to ignore the fact that the clocks are
  acting strangely.
  Is time standing still everywhere,
  or just on Seventh Avenue?
  And I have to forgive the ignorant cruelty of
  people driving past my house
  (because they donÕt know)
  how IÕm sitting here listening for
  the sound of a motor stopping
  and a car door shutting
  and footsteps on the porch
  and a key turning in the lock
  and a voice saying Òhey thereÓ,
  IÕd give almost anything 
  for all that to be true,
  but as yet it hasnÕt happened
  here on Seventh Avenue.


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On Seventh Avenue is copyright 1998 by Lisa Scarboro