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ORPHANAGE TREES 
(martin)

i live down near the orphanage
from my porch i can hear the kids
there’s a row of trees by the iron gate
I watch them as they stand & wait
no one knows how they got there
just blew in from who knows where
they put down roots & they won’t let go
take what you get & you call it home
just act like you don’t care
just glad to be anywhere
& dream that you’ve got it made
when you’re standing in someone else’s shade
these trees have got a stubborn streak
in winter they hold on to every leaf
they wear their bones outside their skin
sometimes you have to keep yourself within
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they don’t like hanging judges
don’t hold people swings or grudges
you think you’d learn a thing or two
when lovers carve their names in you
there’s a wind at night blows through these trees
it’s the same cold wind that blows right through me
make up a past give yourself a name
& a pair of arms to hold anything
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