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Private Beach

by Lee Zangari

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I am another one in a long line of failures I got mixed up in something I don’t even like The right amount is written on the side of the bottle, honey so when I am gone, don’t you start to dress in white It’s not right I went to Jesse’s house, but it had been bulldozed I put my feet into the dirt where it had been I jumped the fence, it was the last defense against the ugliest of words that it’s possible to see: private beach Have you ever felt free? These mistakes are easy, A grave for a garden, a stone for a bead After the meeting I am eating an orange There is nobody who’s watching by the sign I take the peel and squeeze it in my fingers, honey And toss it overhand like a message in the sand For the next man Have you ever felt free? These mistakes are easy, A grave for a garden, a stone for a bead I’m still a lover, and by a lover I mean someone who breathes and eats and sleeps And is easy to deceive Sometimes I think about the garden of eden If just because I am a fan of magic fruit It must get lonely in a world of two, it seems I don’t want a life made out of you and me some private beach
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I’ve gone home in dreams I’ve had I always close every window in my head Do you know me still? Do you know me still? I’ve been good in dreams I’ve had hold my breath past the graveyard and the dead They all love me still They all love me still Out by the water in January I am alone by the boarded-up quarter arcade It was bought by a man and he’d promised he’d keep it but everyone knows it won’t stay Everyone knows it won’t stay would you cut my long hair if I asked? If I wore a pair of business slacks Would you know me still? Would you know me still? Driving the length of the continental United States In my car with its Rhode Island plates maybe one day I’ll crash and destroy it completely But right now it’s running okay Right now it’s running okay Out by the water in January some people walk on the beach though it snowed yesterday Just some shapes in the distance, a coat and a dog who is straining to run in the spray straining to run in the spray
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Smooth operator, dial me in I like my chances slipshod and slim the oilskin, the fisherman, the marrow in the rib the salmon fin, the wave it’s in, the ocean and continent Could you go slower? Could you get lower? bright is the sundew waiting for flies Red is its well-hidden heart when it’s dry The southern ridge, the mucilage, the lenses in the eye The phantom itch, the biting midge, the stretch of forest in the night Could you go slower? Could you get lower? Once there was me and then you and then me and then you And then me and then you and then me and then you And a dream of a dream of a dream of a tune That we dance to from midnight to noon If you’re a stranger, act like you are If you’re a carnivore, bloom in the dark the public park, the dog that barks, the chamber in its heart the flying dart, the waiting mark, the throng of bodies at the bar Could you go slower? Could you get lower? Once there was me and then you and then me and then you And then me and then you and then me and then you And a dream of a dream of a dream of a tune That we dance to from midnight to noon
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more miscellany and demos. lap dulcimer, bowed dulcimer, guitar.

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released September 12, 2021

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Lee Zangari Boston, Massachusetts

folk music from some flounder

"one of the most unique and brilliant sounds to emerge from greater new england. a truly gifted artist." – south shore magazine

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