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1.
Late summer night, it’s my best friend’s birthday.
We’ll have a fire at the bottom of the yard.
And I’ll string a line of lights along the alley-way.
Can we do it at your house though?—mine’s too close to
the road out of town.

Late summer night, it’s my best friend’s birthday.
He’ll drink too much and get all weepy and wet.
And the dew on the soft, dark grass will soak
the trailing hem of your autumn dress.

CHORUS
Half a stick, a blackened patch;
dead flames of last night’s
Birthday Bash.

An eighth of a bottle of something sticky-green.

The wind will empty everything
and the morning won’t fill it up again.

2.
Late summer night, it is my best friend’s birthday.
We won’t invite any other girls—but you must come.
He knows no one but you and me—
plus it’s nice to have a girl around.

Late summer night, it’s my best friend’s birthday.
He’s very old and it is hard to understand him, when
every word comes out inside of a bubble from
in between his nose and chin.

CHORUS

3.
Late summer, night-time, my best friend’s birthday.
If anybody sees him they might say: He’s acting like a retard.
But in whose eyes does he look so bad?
Not yours or mine—we don’t talk like that.

Late summer night-time of my best friend’s birthday.
Before he sleeps in the icy ground, he says:
Today (today, today) was not my birth-day.
But thank you, he says—
and then he says, I’m sorry.

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from An Eighth of a Bottle of Something Sticky Green, released July 11, 2018

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Cameron M. Thomson Toronto, Ontario

Cameron Thomson is a Toronto-based moral philosopher, musician, and writer. When he’s not writing or making music, he may be found on the beach, searching for beach-glass and other treasure, or in the woods, digging for historical glass in former dumpsites. Visit him on Instagram at @cameron_m_thomson. ... more

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