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Black Charlie

from Secret Society by T. Hallenbeck

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Black Charlie hides his face,
and he never never never never never explains.
Black Charlie hides his motives,
and he never ever says why he goes to great pains
to hide in me, and hide from me,
and where the light goes, and where the time goes,
and where the sun goes, and where the stars go,
and he makes me oh so very blind.

Black Charlie never shows himself,
but he always always always always always comes through,
with lots of timely little observations
when the buzzer blares and I finally come to.
He hides in me and speaks to me,
about strange things that probably never really happened,
and sad things forgotten long ago -
Black Charlie is so very kind.

He breaks my rules and sets my pace.
He mimics the frowns that cloud my face.
The more he tells the truth, the more I lie,
and the more he lives, the more I die.

Black Charlie bides his time,
and he never says a word when he rides in the back seat,
on all those barren winter nights
when I drive to nowhere on empty dark streets.
His funny little button otter eyes
watch me through the rear-view mirror.
He sees my shaking hands gripping the wheel,
and he knows how very hard I try.

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from Secret Society, released October 1, 2001

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