The Scotsman Sessions #425: Jenni Fagan
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00:00Benediction
00:14Bottle of whisky every second day on the home shift
00:17Sat at the bar 5pm for the daily beers
00:21Each night you appeared
00:23When the clock struck the hour like a strange kind of cuckoo
00:28Holding out stained dollars in your claws with a toothless smile
00:32Limping
00:34All behold the great beaked barfly
00:38In here there are people who will like you until 1am
00:43When the daggers come out yet until then
00:46It's the love in Jeu de Vive
00:48Everyone likes company for the descent
00:50Not me though
00:52Until sometime later girls begin to flap
00:54Uncount feet with thickened yellow toenails
00:57Begin to flounder
00:58Stagger always meets stope
01:01No lies, no lies until all clocks chime, chime, chime
01:06So loud with sorrow
01:10One night you look up and everyone is gone
01:15And you pick up your lighter
01:17Run it slowly across a wooden bar
01:20Metal spokes spray tiny sparks
01:23Like when you were wee
01:25Remember?
01:27Watching the Catherine Wheel
01:28The golden light of fireworks
01:32And the cold dark night of a Glasgow park