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She never should have rented this apartment in
the Mortal City
The cold comes though evey crack she puts her
hand up to
The radiator's broken, so she has to use electric
heat.
And tonight was the first date with the brother
of the guy she worked next to
He lived a couple streets awa
He listened, he had things to say
She asked him up for dinner sometime
Sometime was tonight
The radio gave updates on the ice storm while she
made the dinner
They said, from all the talk, you shouldn't drive
or even walk
And this just in -- We're asking everyone to turn
off their power
They need it at the hostpital.
She ran around pulling plugs, then she called him
up
Maybe now they shouldn't meet, he said that he
would brave the streets
She met him at the door with a blanket and a
candle
Saying, I heard it on the radio, I had to turn my
power off.
He said you're not the only one, the streets were
dark tonight,
It was like another century
With dim lamps and candles lighting up the icy
trees and the clouds and a covered moon.
She said what kind of people make a city
Where you can't see the sky and you can't feel
the ground?
I tell you something, I have this feeling that
this city's dying
He said, it's not dying it's the people who are
dying
She said, yes yes I think the people are dying
and nobody cares.
We had all this technology our dreams were bold
and vague
And then one city got bad planners, one city got
the plague.
He asked why did you move here? She said, for the
job
For the job and I've been so lonely here, so
lonely
There's no one I can talk to, you know I don't
even know your brother.
He smiled and said, sometimes at night I walk out
by the river
The city's one big town, the water turns it
upside down
people found this city because they love other
people
They want their secretaries, they want their
power lunches.
And think about tonight, I heard the same
newscast you did
I unplugged everything, I looked out the window
And I think the city heard, I watched as one by
one the lights went off
So they could give their power to the hospital
They ate in silence while she thought this over,
They sat together in a dark room in the Mortal
City
Shifting in their blankets so they wouldn't get
spaghetti on them.
Then came the awkward moment after dinner, what
to do,
The ice was still falling, the streets were still
dangerous
The cabs were not running and this neighborhood
was not the greatest.
They both looked at the space where a couch
would've been
She felt her stomach sink, she felt like she
could hardly think
She said, I never should have rented this
apartment in the Mortal City
The cold comes through eve crack I put my hand up
to
The radiator doesn't work, I have to use electric
heat.
That settled it, they would both sleep in her bed
It was a matter of survival.
She brought out teeshirts, sweatshirts,
sweatpants, socks, hats
If there was ever any thought of what would
happen in that bed tonight
There wa no question now
They could barely move
They were wrapped up like ornaments waiting for
another season.
They lay in bed, they listened to the pelting ice
He said my brother's not a bad guy, he's just
quiet
I wished you liked this city
She said, maybe I do.
I think I have a special kind of hearing tonight
I hear the neighbors upstairs
I hear my heart beating
I hear one thousand hearts beating at the
hospital
And one thousand hearts by their bedsides waiting
Saying that's my love in the white gown,
We are not lost in the Mortal City
We are not lost in the Mortal City
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