The Bravest Girl Alive (As Told by Winnifred D. Larkin)
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The bravest girl alive
Erased when she was five
Out back the night she died
Listening to courage stories on the porch when
By surprise a dog
It grabbed her fathers book away
To prove she too was brave
She runs
She bruised her hip
When she barely fit
Through the hole in the fence
Then trips in Danny's
Yard of weeds
Started bleedin
Hardly breath'n
Speeding back to
Damon, Deirdre make it weirder
For Decatur working on his novel
He's actually procrastinating writing
While they secretly
Distract him from his birthday party
From the alley quite abruptly
Runs a puppy followed by
The bravest girl alive
The bravest girl alive
Bumps Damon from behind
He don't fall in love this time
He falls into the trash can left out Friday night
And when his wife tries
But cannot pull no more
She jumps on to the mower
It runs
In the next yard
The party started
By chartered artists led by
Former docent from Nacogdoches
Who made the coats
With Decatur's notes
Which had turned to patches
They're lappin' Danny's keyboard stand
Made from a manger
On a stage under a barbed wire arch
Of partial art from garbage, garden tools
And christmas decorations, melted vinyl, finally
The champ looks up to see two feet
Inside a speeding can full of debris
Pulled by a mower driven by his sister
Right behind his neighbor the writer
Following a small rottweiler
Being chased in second place by
The brightest angel face of space and time
It's bravest girl alive
And by surprise
Dan realized girl won't survive
If she collides with his barbed wire
And so he tries to guide rottweiler
To the side
With his leaf blower, blow dryer
Aimed them low but they blow higher
Hit Diana in the shoulder
And the Jacket blows right off her
Off her back in front the mower
Which is slowly rolling forward
Where the legend of a rumor
Says if you could listen closer
Under sound of raging motor
You could hear the jacket whisper
He says I'm sorry
My lovely family
This is how we
Say goodbye
I think about you
I think about you
I think about you
All the time
The bravest girl alive wasn't thrilled to kill the vibe
But with a bigger hill to climb
The chase goes through the front door
Then back outside
When Danny spies the jacket
Tears begin to flow
His mouth his nose
They run
By the end of day
You won't die in vain
I'll stay on stage
And write my final serenade
And dedicate
The 48th or 9th Decatur
Faked some courage for the champ
Raised a hand of trampled sticky notes
Said I will keep your ideas organized
The chaos conga line added the models
Full throttle lapped the cul-de-sac in panic
Danny wrote a verse Decatur curses
"Perfect for my birthday, do not stop
I know its awkward but
Roll forward to the chorus"
When the boys get to the outro
The neighborhood rolls, rolls to a stop
And Daphne she sings the song
That she had sang five years ago
Next to her sister
The dog it stops to lick her nose
We thought we lost you in the winter snow
We built a library of books you know
But I do not recognize this one
That you hold
And so the bravest girl alive
Takes the book and looks inside
Every page is white
She turns around to see her father cry
He says "I tried I only want you to be brave"
And it was on that very day
I decide to take another name
That is right, I'm the bravest girl alive
But Winnifred D. Larkin
Is the name I claimed to write
Down all the stories from my dad
That I heard on the porch outside
And right before I leave I'll leave you this parting advice
If you tell someone they're brave
And you look them in the eye
Do not be surprised
When one day you look only to find
You look up and sure enough
Their courage multiplied
But they don't step into the light
They run