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Miss Ohio

from Black Mission Figs by Matt Oleksa

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Come midnight, she’s sufferin’ in her silk
Rags stitched with gold
Lace and stirrin’ a whiskey and milk
With a cigarillo well-rolled
Castin’ her last smoke ring
Unto a gypsy who walks her track
A circus lion who don’t look back
Even though she prepared her cold, blue eyes for him
The weight of the train
Snaps the chain
Shakes the rain
On her windowpane
And whoa, there it goes
The thought-dream train of Miss Ohio

Once upon a pointin’ out
A sparrow sinkin’ in the sun
A shadow puffed a bit about
A self-ordained chosen one
Well-trained in explanation
Backed by an abstract code
Traced down an ancient road
To some hickory palace now wet with gasoline
The strike of a match
Peels the patch
Reveals the catch
In a blazin’ collapse
And whoa, somewhere in the smoke
The notes and quotes of Miss Ohio

Got caught again by a kiss in the wind
He said she’d never fall
From a lover to a friend to a branch in the wind
Tremblin’ as the coyotes call
For some flesh, some bone to rise from the ashes of a dream
A lantern in the distance glows
And a heart beats, too, I suppose
As the dusk presses its weight against the pearl in her throat
Catches her gown
On its way down
Spins her around
Over opened ground
And whoa, like spider hangin’ over the valley below
Poor, pitiful Miss Ohio

When sweet summer mornin’ light
Pours upon your fate
And shapes your shattered sounds of night
When it’s clear you are what you hate
The princess poundin’ her little tin cup
Come hither young, hungry waitress
Crawl over broken glass
Fill it with the notes and quotes and smokes...
She drops the broom
Steps out of the room
Where the orchids bloom
Through the ruins of the moon
And whoa, that’s me in the in the top hat and the coat
What’s it going be Miss Ohio?

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from Black Mission Figs, released June 16, 2015
Matt Oleksa: vocals, guitar, harmonica

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