Jack Gittens

I'm a prisoner of who all you listeners might be

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"The things we remember are beautiful and difficult and elusive, and they deserve care when we unearth them."

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"You were angels
So much more than everything
Hold for the last time
Then slip away quietly"

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“Can almost hear roller coasters”

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"It's the forbidden moment that we live in that fires our sad escape"

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"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer...like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning...it is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color."

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"How were we to know that our lives had already begun?"

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“Even when it’s here
It’s going by
And when it’s gone
We pretend we know the reason

All the roots grow deeper
When it’s dry”

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“Have you seen green
Have you seen green grass
So green, grass
So green
I'd like to be like that
I'd like to be like that
I'd like to be moving on
A lawn
So green”

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“I can’t hold on to her
With just my appetite
But I get so hungry
For another chance”

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“Her pictures are like pieces of a dream”

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“There’s no way you’re ever gonna have a normal relationship with her. She won’t permit it. It’s not part of the structure. You must accept it.”

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“What if you're controlling the expression of something that needs to be expressed?"

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“I just swallow hard
In your eyes
Black diamonds
I could die”

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“In August and everything after
You get a little less than you expected
Somehow”

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“Do I think now that with would ring a bell?
You know I couldn’t even tell you”

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i see pieces of our past in the pages you sent me

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“Mostly I think about what is, not what could be.

I've learned not to get my hopes up.”

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“A hidden dream
Can be embarrassing”

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“Then you're in the world again.
At night, on a cold hill, taking the telescope apart.

You realize afterward not that the image is false but the relation is false.

You see again how far away each thing is from every other thing.”

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“I want you
like owls want eyes”