Hymn of the Medical Oddity

from Reunion Tour by The Weakerthans

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Oh, all the words I should not know, that those doctors wrote on me, swell up and thrum their syllables. Won't let me get to sleep. The sun will start late and clock out early so I drive around and wait for it. Follow familiar roads, emptied of every memory, under a sheet of silence and unmarked snow. Then idle in some parking lot, smoke half a smoke and ask St. Boniface and St. Vital to preserve me from my past. Repair our potholes. Prevent plant closures. And if they remember me at all make them remember me as more than a queer experiment; more than a diagram in their Quarterly. Make them remember me.

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from Reunion Tour, released September 25, 2007

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