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Inaugurations

from Half Man Half Salt by Harris Face

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I watched Obama’s inauguration from a projector screen
At the student village in Jerusalem, the university
As far away from the action as I could imagine, so I cleaved
To hope & change and the great man theory of history

Someone’s saying something profound
Won't someone turn up the sound
Someone’s saying something profound
Won't someone turn up the sound

Had a standing room ticket to the second inaugural
A clear day out on the mall
From Seneca Falls to Selma, and a cheer when he threw in Stonewall
I laughed a pro-life protestor who was heckling high in a tree
A few more years I took his threat too seriously

Someone’s saying something profound
Won't someone turn up the sound
Someone’s saying something profound
Won't someone turn up the sound

Not a clue, I must have blocked the memory out of 1/20/2017
The Women’s March the next day I remember more vividly
I read George had leaned to Michelle, said “that was some weird shit” and I could agree
I swore to Amalek im blotting out your memory

Someone’s saying something profound
Won't someone turn up the sound
Someone’s saying something profound
Won't someone turn up the sound
Turn up the sound, turn up the sound
Turn up the sound, turn up the sound

I was serving on a jury and we reached a verdict and so I missed seeing Biden live
The case concerned a personal injury, weren’t we all damaged and survived
I watched the ceremony over lunch and I cried at the poetry reading
No longer a spectator at inaugurations

Someone’s saying something profound
Won't someone turn up the sound
Someone’s saying something profound
Won't someone turn up the sound
Turn up the sound, turn up the sound
Turn up the sound, turn up the sound
Turn up the sound, turn up the sound
Turn up the sound, turn up the sound
Turn up the sound, turn up the sound
Turn up the sound

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from Half Man Half Salt, released September 3, 2023

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