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Impossible Objects

from Silent Reply by Kevin Dorff

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I sat behind you in AP Statistics
Charting my daydreams, their characteristics.
In each one you gave me impossible objects
Like time on a string, an elephant’s wing.

For all of their beauty, unspeakable, nameless,
Their uncertain purpose, so happy and aimless,
I feel that I know you, if only in dreams.
But I fail to see us intersecting.

So much for field trips, we all went to see
A local professor slash actuary.
He told us in five years, "One of you’ll be dead,"
But he didn’t say who, nor exactly when.

So laughing and halfway scared shitless and sensible,
We settled for topics less incomprehensible
Like where to get lunch and who’s willing to drive.
We all need to be back here by 12:25.

Had I known you better, perhaps I could say
More closely what happened on that July day.
The car rolling backwards, impossible object,
Pinned life to the fence in front of your friends.

That night we got high and went to the movies.
We talked about nothing, tried not to feel gloomy,
Saw M. Night Shyamalan’s live-action catastrophe.
We wished we had seen Toy Story Part III.

It always surprised me to think you were older,
Impossible objects you drew on your folder.
Then there was your mustache, spread thin when you smiled.
There’s no sense in shaving the face of a child.

It’s been nearly nine years since that July day,
And each day you’ve flashed through my mind in some way.
No justice in dying when numbers are king.
Maybe that’s why I cling to your elephant’s wing.

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from Silent Reply, track released September 16, 2022

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Kevin Dorff Brooklyn, New York

Kevin Dorff is a songwriter and playwright from Des Moines, IA. His debut record, “Silent Reply” considers the ways people we have known live in us beyond death. Inspired by the novels of Rachel Cusk, the paintings of Alice Neel, and the lyricism of songwriters like Craig Finn and David Berman, Silent Reply is a series of elegies steeped in 90s indie and folk rock. ... more

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