Sarah Ramirez

from Sincerely, Dorothy by Dear Herman

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I was eight years old when Sarah pushed me down
Said I wasn’t to hold hands with the cute class clown
He was hers you see, they were already married
He had kissed her cheek behind the old dairy
She won the fistfight that had to follow
But the boy was forgotten, animosity swallowed

Her Macarena is an awkward sight
But she will sway and sing with all her might
She is a brick when trouble comes around
Except when tremors whisper underground
If she ever needs a thing, needs a hand herself
I won’t be there, with my love, to help

She came over last night without invitation
Brought an oven charred muffin of her own creation
And we laughed at the ancient humor of it all
And we cried for what’s to follow the fall
She has never let me stay afraid
Or give up untested a plan I’ve made

Let her tell you the story of her Eddie
Watch her eyes in the telling when she’s ready
She won’t talk about me or the weeping
How she help up my head to be sick without sleeping
If she ever needs a thing, needs a hand herself
Could you be there, if you’re there, to help?

I would tell her she is brave
I would tell her she is soft
She is both you see, unselfconsciously

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from Sincerely, Dorothy, released October 24, 2013

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Dear Herman Lincoln, Nebraska

Dear Herman is Crystal Davy and Melissa Taylor. We are sisters. An autopsy after our deaths will reveal that our backbones are forged with mountain rock. Our hearts' last beat was the oompha of mariachi music. And our tendons are actually quotations from Jane Austen ... more

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