Fiction-The Lucksmiths

[ti:Fiction] [ar:The Lucksmiths] [al:Warmer Corners] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Fiction - The Lucksmiths [00:00.70]Written down here gentle reader [00:03.67] [00:04.64]It seems too good to be true [00:07.96] [00:08.80]But there's a girl in Kansas city [00:13.54]With my favourite tattoo [00:16.73] [00:18.34]Oh why would I lie to you [00:23.76] [00:45.12]This was in another century [00:49.11]Somewhere near the summer's end [00:52.41] [00:54.04]The fahrenheit was frightening [00:58.03]I was awake the whole weekend [01:00.99] [01:02.77]Invited to a barbecue [01:06.89]I found refuge in the kitchen [01:10.43] [01:11.10]Discussing post war U S literature [01:15.63]With a girl whose upper arm read fiction [01:19.40] [01:20.04]Like it might have been typewritten [01:26.40] [01:46.81]When I asked her it's significance [01:51.07]She said she sometimes took reminding [01:54.87] [01:55.66]What she wanted to be doing [01:58.93] [01:59.92]Whether reading it or writing [02:03.38] [02:04.36]I admitted admiration [02:07.71] [02:08.54]For both typeface and intent [02:12.36] [02:13.19]And said more softly sotto voce [02:16.52] [02:17.40]I knew too well what she meant [02:21.06] [02:21.85]She just smiled [02:23.19] [02:24.06]And in a while she went [02:27.55] [02:32.23]For a time I forgot this ever took place [02:36.63] [02:38.58]She left her bottle on the bookcase [02:41.90] [03:31.75]So though I leave you little option [03:34.98] [03:35.62]But to take me at my word [03:39.13] [03:40.43]I assure you dearest listener [03:43.66] [03:44.48]That it happened as you've heard [03:47.70] [03:48.95]A beer left on a bookshelf [03:52.17] [03:52.79]At a bygone barbecue [03:56.47] [03:57.10]By a girl from Kansas city [04:00.28] [04:01.13]With my favourite tattoo [04:04.42] [04:05.47]Oh why would I lie to you [04:11.36] [04:14.00]Oh why would I lie to you [04:20.11] [04:22.75]Oh why would I lie