[00:00.61]You'll recall from the sagas
[00:03.55]I hope Grettir's last stand at Drangey
[00:09.79]
[00:12.38]How his grip on the sword
[00:15.38]made his enemies cut off his hand
[00:24.26]If he'd fled here instead,
[00:27.38]and had tasted this terrible coffee
[00:35.88]Or read these letters you sent he'd surrender,
[00:41.32]and lay the blade down
[00:45.44].
[00:48.44]And it's Halloween
[00:53.63]Skinny ghosts dress like cowboys
[00:57.38]and rest at the railing by my door
[01:08.51]On their way from the children's ward
[01:16.51].
[01:20.41]Bev Monroe and his Pembina Valley
[01:25.72]boys play at the party
[01:32.10]And I practice my English on nurses,
[01:36.79]"Oh, that's a nice name."
[01:43.98]And they may ask for mine,
[01:46.85]but the burns on my back from the x-rays
[01:55.22]Say I shouldn't show anyone anything ever again
[02:03.22].
[02:08.10]In another year
[02:13.41]I'll be buried or shivering here.
[02:19.29]Coughing at the grey spittoon
[02:28.29]Painted orange by the harvest moon
[02:36.10].
[03:03.68]Pack up mother's clothes
[03:09.49]Drive her down to the new Betel Home
[03:15.36]Sell the boat to Arnison
[03:24.49]And then go stand up straight
[03:33.11]In the place you're longing for
[03:39.68]And don't write to me anymore