High Jumper

from Doubt by Dumb Instrument

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she is waiting with her father
at the top of his skyscraper
far below the city lights are
glimmering with gleaming spanglings
whispering suggesting things,
the countless possibilities and
in the park even the trees are
rustling leaves like they were pleased

Simon and Garfunkel meanwhile
tell him you will miss the train
he decides to disregard them
and instead go walking in the rain
in his new Chinese coat whose sleeves are long
but zips up to the throat
quite soon theres Barry White
inside his head he smiles instead

Superman he flew so fast
he ended up back in the past
where he rights all wrongs and then makes sure
if things are bad that they don’t last yes
that was very good of him
it’s nice to think that all our problems
can be consigned to the bin, i’m just joking

see she wears a fair isle jumper
hand knitted in Scotland by a
white haired lady in a cottage
using needles also used for
sewing wounds on giants
when they come to call just after battle
using wool thats harvested from
skinny sheep not nice to eat

she is fed up waiting
makes her way towards the open window
looks down at the pattern on her
jumper and can make no sense of it
she looks round fathers gone
to make some tea so she climbs up and
stands upon the window ledge
and then repeats his worthless pledge

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from Doubt, released August 11, 2019
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