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Divorced at thirty-five, I feel
time is running backwards, world in reverse.
I’m a teen again, green and seventeen again.
Aching for a boy to take me to the prom.
Not that I care, not that I care.
Brittle. Jokey. Awkward. Dreamy.
What can I learn from the girl that I was?

Rewind:
Let the years fall away.
Rewind:
Feel the fire in your heart.
Rewind:
You were scared but you fought
against the lies you were taught.
Rewind:
From a woman to a girl
in a strangely spinning world.
Rewind.

I did go to the prom with Darren Pulaski,
who was gay—which he noted, when he asked me.
He was a good dancer, he made me look good.
We cleared the floor for several songs,
stole cheap rosé and watched the dawn.
And Darren cried,
which made me cry.

Rewind:
When summer went forever.
Rewind:
When no one understood.
Rewind:
The future was right now,
and we would show you how.

And now the future is thirty-five and divorced.
Clicking strange pictures, being clicked on by strangers.
What would she say, what would the girl say?
When I was seventeen, and stupid, and brilliant, and brave?
Don’t waste a moment,
but don’t chase the moment.
Rewind, but remember:
Only love has power over time

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from In Real Life, released July 8, 2022

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American Modern Recordings (AMR) specializes in recordings of contemporary classical music, with an emphasis on music by living American composers. AMR is also the house label for the American Modern Ensemble (AME) and its affiliated ensembles. Our albums are critically-acclaimed and top-sellers on Amazon, CDBaby, iTunes, and everywhere recordings are sold. ... more

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