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The Ballad of Gordon Biehl

from IN THE SUMMER HEAT by sun god

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‘Gordon Biehl liked to laugh a lot’,
read the note on the mirror.
Then he went and got himself caught,
in a routine traffic stop.
Kind of like another planet,
something out of this world.
No stranger to the lonely terrain,
still stuck in the steel.

Woke up to an arrow in my front door.
Gordon never calls me anymore.

Neighborhood kids climbing up the ladder,
“just to see what they could!”
said the old man down at the bar,
staying longer than he should.

Paperboy trapped in the shed.
Pipebomb sitting on his nightstand.
Gordon never thought he’d get caught.

A friend once said,
“The world’s a crooked place on Howard Avenue.”

Then he said, “Alright boys, that’s it, I’m out.
This one here is on the house!”
Then he grabbed his keys,
and he walked out.
Started up the engine on a cold winter night.
You know, where the red lights
turn to stops
in the night.

He said, “I swore I saw Mr. Gordon Biehl drive-by, collar down with a smile.”

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from IN THE SUMMER HEAT, released August 26, 2022
Organ and piano written and performed by Kiley Lotz

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