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Council Rings

from Difficult To Like (demos) by David Safran

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She’s 31 and tried to run
For local city council.
He’s 29 and well past time
To leave his parents’ household.
Their childhood starry; they got in early
What now is barely present—
Beds and poisons and adult choices
Was the high point of adolescence.

They both seem to find erotic bliss
Pretending that it’s 1996.

Baby, take off your crisp white blouse, your skinny black slacks.
Baby, come sing some Elastica to me.
Baby, let’s pretend we’re too young, let’s reenact
All our long-buried North Shore memories.

Her life, her love: the Rotary Club.
His life is just misguided.
A gift, a plague, reserved for age:
The past trots alongside them.
The love she gave his seventh grade
Is what he wants near thirty:
To hear her say, with amused dismay,
“You still look twelve, don’t worry.”

They both take some comfort from this:
Pretending that it’s 1996.

Baby, take off your crisp white blouse, your skinny black slacks.
Baby, come sing some Elastica to me.
Baby, let’s pretend we’re too young, let’s reenact
All our long-buried North Shore memories.

And they both seem to find erotic bliss
Pretending that it’s 1996–

When they’d meet at Rosewood Beach; meet at the Braeside stop;
The car beneath Port Clinton Square abandoned;
Upon a stone council ring in Jens Jensen Park;
And next to City Hall inside the timber cabin.

Baby, take off your crisp white blouse, your skinny black slacks.
Baby, get into your bight and baggy jeans.
Baby, let’s pretend we’re too young, let’s reenact
All our long-buried North Shore memories.

David Safran / Anchorhold Music. ©2012

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from Difficult To Like (demos), released December 6, 2016

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David Safran Chicago, Illinois

David Safran is a writer, musician, and producer.. A noted figure in Chicago's music scene, Safran has attracted acclaim for his "boundary-breaking tunes" (WNUR) and dark, provocative lyrics "spike[d]...with humor" (The Chicago Reader).

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