Fiction-The Lucksmiths

[ti:Fiction] [ar:The Lucksmiths] [al:Warmer Corners] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Fiction - The Lucksmiths [00:01.07]Written down here gentle reader [00:04.04] [00:05.01]It seems too good to be true [00:08.33] [00:09.17]But there's a girl in Kansas city [00:13.90]With my favourite tattoo [00:17.10] [00:18.70]Oh why would I lie to you [00:24.13] [00:45.48]This was in another century [00:49.48]Somewhere near the summer's end [00:52.77] [00:54.41]The fahrenheit was frightening [00:58.40]I was awake the whole weekend [01:01.36] [01:03.14]Invited to a barbecue [01:07.26]I found refuge in the kitchen [01:10.80] [01:11.47]Discussing post war U S literature [01:16.00]With a girl whose upper arm read fiction [01:19.76] [01:20.41]Like it might have been typewritten [01:26.76] [01:47.18]When I asked her it's significance [01:51.44]She said she sometimes took reminding [01:55.24] [01:56.02]What she wanted to be doing [01:59.30] [02:00.29]Whether reading it or writing [02:03.75] [02:04.73]I admitted admiration [02:08.07] [02:08.91]For both typeface and intent [02:12.73] [02:13.56]And said more softly sotto voce [02:16.89] [02:17.76]I knew too well what she meant [02:21.43] [02:22.22]She just smiled [02:23.56] [02:24.43]And in a while she went [02:27.92] [02:32.60]For a time I forgot this ever took place [02:37.00] [02:38.94]She left her bottle on the bookcase [02:42.27] [03:32.12]So though I leave you little option [03:35.35] [03:35.99]But to take me at my word [03:39.50] [03:40.80]I assure you dearest listener [03:44.03] [03:44.84]That it happened as you've heard [03:48.07] [03:49.32]A beer left on a bookshelf [03:52.54] [03:53.16]At a bygone barbecue [03:56.84] [03:57.47]By a girl from Kansas city [04:00.65] [04:01.49]With my favourite tattoo [04:04.79] [04:05.83]Oh why would I lie to you [04:11.73] [04:14.37]Oh why would I lie to you [04:20.48] [04:23.11]Oh why would I lie