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End of Your Life

from American Doggerel vol. 1 by A.M. Rodriguez

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End of Your Life

What is it you recall at the end of your life
--all those Saturdays spent working overtime,
Or maybe your wife’s hair bobbing gold, under blue light
As the band plays ‘Yellow Rose’ on your wedding night?

Well, green was the color
Of your Momma’s hungry eyes
Even after Daddy’d cuff em
And cause em both to shine

One for each of his warnings
Though he’d always move that line
Then take you out to dinner
And in his stumbling way apologize

But hamburgers and ice cream tasted fucking cheap
From the wallet of a man you wished your mom could beat
Halfway to death and leave you with the rest…
You’d started the hole once, on your 11th birthday

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Maybe you’ll smell the creek where Virginia tore her Sunday best
After she said she loved you slightly more than all the rest
Of the boys who picked on you but never once caressed
The inside of her thighs as when your hands snaked up her dress

You thought you’d rest your heart in the darkness of a park
One moonless evening in your first beat-up old car
She whispered in your ear when she felt the time come near
In the morning you left for college and you felt your head grow clear

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You loved a city in your twenties
Lost the country in your thirties
One had stained your soul
The other left your hands and knees all dirty

There was no children in your lap
As you drank to the past
Then one little towhead
Came and changed all that

You named her for your Mom
--Raised the weak over the strong
And she never met your Daddy,
Only heard of him in song

The one you wrote for her just before she finished school
And stepped out in the world feeling somewhat new

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Your days beset by fog
You’re like a hound trapped in a log

You’re senses work but your body’s twerked
So you howl out your song

Your nurse is cute and she dotes on you
Though you know you’re all alone

And sometimes when you close your eyes
You feel like you’re dying back at home

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from American Doggerel vol. 1, released May 24, 2023

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A.M. Rodriguez Athens, Georgia

Rodriguez is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and audio engineer currently based out of Athens,
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