Never Saw it Coming

from Chimp Haven by Paula Carino

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I've always had a hard time facing up to facts.

That tell-tale raspy cough in the second act

That somewhere in the third turns tubercular

And spells the tragic end of our character.

I would always skip ahead,

No one crying, no one dead

So i never saw it coming.

Sitting in the skylab, circling the earth

No grisly end for me, and no messy birth

Floating in a free-fall, never wanting more

And never paying mind to who minds the store.

I could sense it in the air

Darkness falls on bunny lair

But i never saw it coming

Cordelia, what did you learn?

That there's fewer things as sad

As a daddy's girl without a dad

But what about contrition? And what about regret?

It's just remembering all the pain that hasn't happened yet.

I'd rather just remember the light inside your chest

That hopped inside of mine on your final breath

I would always skip ahead,

No one crying, no one dead

So i never saw it coming.

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from Chimp Haven, released March 20, 2015

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Paula Carino Brooklyn, New York

Evidence-based post-punk and power pop.

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