What if not a mistresses' love
Or a thirst for honey rye and stout
Draws a man out after dark?
What is he doing?
This was what she asked about her spouse
Friends and neighbors going house to house
No one could explain or seemed to know
What is he doing?
Nothing here for miles but tree and rock
Nowhere in the dark for him to go
Down the path that only hunters know
What is he doing?
Some nights he would vomit
And seize on the ground
His wife had to turn him
So he wouldn't drown
And those bed-side puddles
Acidic and foul
Arranged into shapes
And they were dancing and swirling
And begging her to stay
Then one day at last
She had the courage to ask
What has come to pass?
He turned pale in fright
Tears swelled in his eyes
And he answered so:
One day I'll take you
Where the wild lemons grow
One day I'll show you
He did not come home after that
Village shaman had presumed him dead
Built a funeral pyre to guide his rest
But the totem didn't catch ablaze
Putrid yellow smoke began to rise
Needled at the lungs and burned the eyes
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