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Linh, Ich & Eva.

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older brother, restless soul, lie down  

lie for a while with your ear against the earth  

and you'll hear your sister sleep talking  

say "your hair is long but not long enough to reach  

home to me 

but your beard  

someday might be"

and she'll wake up in a cold sweat on the floor 

next to a family portrait drawn when you were four 

and beside a jar of two cent coins that are no good no more 

she'll lay it aside  

older father, weary soul, you'll drive  

back to the home you made on the mountainside

with that ugly, terrible thing  

those papers for divorce 

and a lonely ring a lonely ring 

sit on your porch  

and pluck your strings  

and you'll find somebody you can blame 

and you'll follow the creek that runs out into the sea  

and you'll find the peace of the Lord. 

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