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I'll Be Glad When You're Gone

from All The Bone by Mark Ari

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You know, one night stands have a pretty shitty reputation. We think of something cold, superficial, soulless, or even mean. Maybe it is like that a lot of times for a lot of folks—the kind of thing you grab in the moment out of hope or need or some terribly human thirst, and it leaves you feeling flattened. Less than you were before. Sadder.

But it’s not always that. Someone once said the loveliest flower has the briefest bloom. I know someone said it, because it got into my head from somewhere. I don’t think it’s entirely true. But a lovely flower, and perhaps even the loveliest, might have the briefest bloom. It can happen. That’s enough to know.

Love doesn’t have to be long to be love. It can just happen for a few hours on a cool night with the wavelets from the wake of a passing boat lapping a nearby bulkhead under the young moon visible through a glass door. When it is as much to be a drink of water as it is to drink. You don’t remember her name. How could you after decades? You only used it once. Twice at most, and never again. But you do remember the reach of skin, the soft and tender give of it against your own. Hair, peach-scented, the color of walnuts. A wet mouth and the taste of it. For that cupful of time, it was sweet, sincere, and so gentle it felt like what home must feel like.

Why shouldn’t something like that hold its place among the loves of a lifetime?

But this song isn’t about that. It’s about a whole other mood altogether.

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from All The Bone, released August 23, 2017
Mark Ari, guitar, vocal, and harp.

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