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Alexandra & The Zozobra Burning

from The Sugar Nile by Sam Russell & the Harborrats

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headache on strong, rightfully to belong
to a sugar junkie crashing from recalling wrong
who wanted red barn full of the Easter hay
and to lose innocence like an old cliche
when semester finally ends in middle of May
and Alexandra returns home from Santa Fe

a girl from California, somewhere in the country
I never ran into again in any big city
or a dive bar sitting somewhere near a county line
jukebox comes on, brings back a dream, just again to die
on the stairway landing, she denied my kiss
Alexandra’s now the one from then that I miss

and I remember Alexandra on the first day most of all
me and her and Joe walking to watch Zozobra fall
on the campus green we laid under stars and talked
there was so much possibility that I could feel out rush

a century earlier I'd have sworn it's her I loved
declared my hand in marriage for them all to gossip of
then gone back to the farm, worked for her mom and dad
earned their blessing to someday inherit the land
and they'd look at me grateful forever for the day
when Alexandra returned home from Santa Fe

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from The Sugar Nile, released September 21, 2011

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