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midnight outside of Detroit
your father drank a case
(and a half)
and you cry in the basement
cause you don’t know why

and that movie scared you
and you haven’t had alcohol yet
or you have
and you hate the taste

evening
an hour outside of Tokyo
you and some girl
with freckles take a train
to karaoke
while lying to her father
and you don’t kiss her
cause you get lost
and you want to be the one
that finds the right train

I don’t remember anything until
I do
then I forget again