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Bring Figs

from Secret Admirer by Zoe Guigueno

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Bring figs, he adores the taste
Seeds in his teeth, I’ll brush them out later
Singing along to old 78s
Drop the needle, wind the crank

His mother ran naked through the living room
She slammed through the screen door
where her clothes were drying on the front porch
Tomorrow she’ll lay smoking in bed all day
but most days she’s up with the sun
she works like a farmer and her work’s never done

His Bolshevik grandma
a fox in her day
Trembling, arthritic hands fill my plate
her daughters dye their hair in the sink
and crouch in the grass reading politics

and next week their father will try to boss them around
What once was his kingdom is now their land
Grout the chimney, gut the basement, chuck the lamps
Tend to the things you love
stop the spreading cracks

A paint-splattered shirt, a bra in her purse
if she goes to town
Lift him up out of his chair into their green sedan
and the first thing he does is find the crank to roll the window down
with the wind rushing in round his head
he adores the sound
he adores the sound

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from Secret Admirer, released June 5, 2020
Banjo: Taylor Ashton
all other performances: Zoe Guigueno & Alec Spiegelman
music & lyrics by Zoe Guigueno

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Zoe Guigueno New York, New York

Zoe is a Canadian songwriter and bass player living in Queens, NY.

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