I Saw Your Ghost Today

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I SAW YOUR GHOST TODAY

I saw your ghost today
In Morgantown
Moping around
You couldn't miss him
He was too invisible
I saw your ghost today
So proud and vain
And hunger pained
His eyes insisting
That he was not miserable

I followed him into
A public library
And watched him listen to
A tape of poetry
Trying so hard
To rise above the self-pity
With only Mister Sandburg
There to share his birthday

I saw your ghost today
Made me proud of you
I saw your ghost today
I'm glad we made it through

I saw your ghost today
In Fredricksburg
Out in the 'burbs
Dead in the headphones
Singing 'Attics Of My Mind'
I saw your ghost today
A country road
A heavy load
Dodging the dry bones
Of the dreams he'd left behind

I followed him along
The fields of crimson clay
And saw that he was drawn
At darkening of day
To blessed Babylon
In primitive array
Though his alms were on
The altar of Jehovah

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I saw your ghost today
In Tokyo
Go to and fro
Speaking the language
With a sake in his hand
I saw your ghost today
Living life
Without his wife
Checking his baggage
At the all-night change of plan

From Rainbow Bridge so bright
He gazed across the bay
Into the gnawing night
That beckoned him away
Loving the lofty height
Of one less wasted day
Believing he might
Not have time for wasting

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I saw your ghost today!
I saw your ghost today!