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A Middling Sense of Achievement - Obediah Bones
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ISBN: 978-1-6657-4061-6 (sc)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2023905031
Archway Publishing rev. date: 04/03/2023
Contents
I. Birth
1. Longing
2. Wings
3. Afternoon Showers
4. Nobody
5. Ecclesiastes
6. Preacher’s Pride
7. Shepherd’s Song
8. Jonothan
9. Growing Old
10. Let Them Play
11. Something
12. Human
II. Death
13. Ghost
14. Old God/Hypocrite
15. Remember
16. Sobriety
17. Nickel and Nicotine
18. Silence
19. Ascending on a Horizontal Plane
20. How Long
21. Hard to Love
22. Death of a Poet
23. The Condemned Man’s Lullaby
24. Forsake
25. Jawbone
26. Holy Grail
27. Garden
III. Somewhere In Between
28. Flight
29. Early Morning
30. Captain James Hook
31. Working Class
32. Barstools
33. Alchemist
34. Spit
35. Jezebel
36. Run Away
37. A Travelling Song
38. A Bit of Him
39. Daydream IV: Dad Shoes
40. Daydream III: Lovely
41. Seasons
42. A Romance of Shadows
43. A Small Brown Spider
44. Autumn Death
45. Soon, We’re Going Sailing, Brother
46. Funny
47. Darkness Dawning
48. A Brief Lament
49. Tapping
50. Sailing
51. Kissing
52. Road Trips and Song Skips
53. Home
54. Chant
55. Just One More Drive
56. Lover, Sinner, Dancer, Brother, Sister
57. Making Friends
58. Another Song
59. Far Far Down Below
60. Rain
61. Christmas
62. Flirt
63. Revel
I.
Birth
Longing
Why is love
Always spelled
Like longing?
Like when you
Introduced yourself
As Pain
And all I
Could say was
Don’t leave me
Wings
One slipped throught the cracks
Of the human machine
But there’s no going back
For we can’t make it seem
We were wrong
Said God to the cherub
But we can’t leave them there
In a world so cruel
Alone, shunned, and scared
A lost puppet, a fool
Were we wrong?
Said the cherub to God
Don’t dare question my ways
I am right in all things
With