Piles of Used to Be
The Story Is Everything
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Fourteen years ago today To say she remembered it well would be a lie A blur of newscast speculation There was just no way the water rose that high She had fled in a haze And in the following days she slowly understood That the way to quell the rumors was to sneak past the barricades As soon as she could To a scene from Eliot's “Waste Land” A heap of broken images Where the sun beat and the dead trees Gave no shelter A scene from Eliot's “Waste Land” Fear in a handful of dust That coated everything beneath the water line Unreal city And the piles of used-to-be Where the dead men lost their bones Among rotten wood and stones Stands a scavenger left plundering And wandering through a life undone Out of the window Perilously spread her drying combinations Touched by sun's last rays Photographs and swollen books beyond restoration And when you look into her eyes You see the saddest story That has ever been told before Of a city's season of despair An 'X' and numbers spray-painted across her door In a scene from Eliot's “Waste Land” A heap of broken images Where the sun beat and the dead trees Gave no shelter A scene from Eliot's “Waste Land” Fear in a handful of dust That coated everything beneath the water line Unreal city And the piles of used-to-be Where the dead men lost their bones Among rotten wood and stones Stands a scavenger left plundering And wandering through a life undone Sorting through the piles of used-to-be
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