An Ode to George/Lonesome Little Heart

from Marginalia EP by Josh Mordecai

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the most famous person who comes from my town, he put a bullet through his heart, and just before he did he left a not that says, quite famously [at least in part], ‘to my friends my work is done why wait?’ then he picked up his gun and resigned himself to his fate. now families and schools take their kids to his house on little daytrips. they always tell them everything he made, but they never tell them what he did. so no one knows how he felt when they see the bed where he knelt, and the children run and laugh through the rooms where he and his loneliness once together dwelt. i know one day my heart will fall apart, but it won’t be quite the same way. i won’t leave behind any kind of note. i’ll have said all i wanted to say. or maybe i’ll write one more song or create some beautiful work of art just to prove no mansion can hold near as much as my lonesome little heart.

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from Marginalia EP, released February 22, 2011

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