So Good - Dispatch

Staring at the pen and ink drawings

There’s a crow who’s starting to bleed

I go to the bookshelf, myself and a picture of a girl in a bikini

Jumping off a dock falls out of page 43

I think it’s my brother’s old girlfriend who’s married to a woman now

My father walks like he’s run out of oil

He lurches and jerks his way around the farm

My mother walks towards him the same way she led her last horse away from the

barn

We’d just built a fire to soften up the ground

You could see her saying through her tears it’s okay boy, come follow me one

last time

Maybe, don’t know, can’t tell, if it’s so good

So good, so good, to be living right now

My kids are still young, barely weigh anything

I can carry them easy on each arm

But I told them I wouldn’t be able to do that forever

And sometimes when I’m carrying them both

The older one says, hey look dad, you can still carry me

Maybe, don’t know, can’t tell

Yeah but it’s so good, so good to be living right now

So good, so good, it’s so good to be living right now

Maybe, don’t know, can’t tell

Yeah but it’s so good, so good to be living right now

Yeah but it’s so good, so good, it’s so good to be living right now