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A scar cross my breasts described seven years later. Quietly you sit on the edge of my bed. There's something in knowing the second-best hero, a comfort in distance, of "better off dead". And these hands are patient, the memory's fresh, the wounds have healed over, the only thing left is to sing to you perfectly, no note out of place, every word aimed with skill, every gesture with grace. I am a good time, while you are a death in the family. I am a straight line, and you are a snake eating its own tail. I am a smart girl and I know you were a terrible friend. My last spell cast: may you never be happy again. The jealousy brought up and worn like a crown, it outgrew its ill virtues till you were worn down by nightmares of failure, your family's disgust, nights spent shaking beside me, fevered with lust. And these hands are practiced, they've passed all their tests, they know all your movements, they're nimble and fast. Through a history of ten years that felt like forever, now finally grown up, you'd do well to remember that: I am a good time, and you are a death in the family. I am a straight line, while you are a snake eating its own tail. I am a smart girl, and I know you were a terrible friend. My last spell cast: oh, to be happy again.

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from Distance, released December 27, 2010

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The Dead Elm Society of Canada Lakefield, Ontario

Dead Elms was a group of musicians playing the songs of Alex Unger, operating between Toronto and Peterborough, Ontario, Canada during 2009 through 2011.

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