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Three Weeks Shy

from Misadventures in Stereo by Jim Boggia

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Ma looked at her plate, then pushed it aside.
Since that day, she'd say she don't have an appetite.
The dishes in the sink are stacked four days high.
That was when the men came up our drive.

There was a blue sky.
The sun was in my eyes.
They said a few words
but Mama's scream was all I heard.
He was just three weeks shy.

My brother signed up the day he turned eighteen.
Said to me: "You see? I'm gonna be all that I can be."
The day he told us really caused quite a scene.
We didn't know he'd go so suddenly.

There was a blue sky.
Ma started to cry.
She asked him what day
he'd have to go away.
He said he was three weeks shy.

They shipped him off the first of July
to Fallujah. That was when
he lost a couple friends.
His tour came to an end.
They called him up again
and sent him into Baghdad this time.
Almost two years since he's gone,
he calls us on the phone.
Says he's coming home.

He's finally coming home.

Ma hung a calendar
up on the wall.
Every morning we'd pray
and then an "X" she would draw.
We were counting down
to his "Homeward Bound,"
to his "Safe and Sound"

but there was a blue sky.
The sun got in his eyes.
When that IED blew,
there was nothing he could do.
He was just three weeks shy.

He's never coming home.

credits

from Misadventures in Stereo, released August 5, 2008
Who's making that racket?

Roger Cox demonstrates why even though the credits say he's playing drums, he is always really playing the SONG. This is beautiful, Roger. Zach Djanikian played saxophones, scooping when I asked him to even though Miss Maynard told him not to. Pete Donnelly played bass. Flicker played trumpet and flugelhorn. Mike Frank played electric piano. I sang and played acoustic guitar. George W. Bush played the decider. The press rolled over and played dead. The American public played as if there weren't a war going on (two, but who's counting?).

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