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the nurse familiar

(Can you imagine?)

Acapella, night
the nurse familiar
someone has brought flowers
the bedsheets are clean

Fermata, no recollection
20 years, or so I'm told
a long and dreamless night
you are my first visitor

her, con grazia
the only answer
the only constant in this darkness
a minor key, Grazioso

the only answer, refrain
the nurse familiar
Sforzando, she plays music
it is unfamiliar to me, she cries

a crescendo in g-minor
poco a poco, 20 years, night
always a minor key
a dreamless, unfamiliar march

a Requiem, refrain
someone has brought flowers
the bedsheets are clean
my love, Rubato, she cries

dreamless, sonatina
you are my first visitor
the nurse familiar, pianissimo
someone has brought flowers