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Dashboard Jesus

by wilco

Member since 2004 · Posted 19 Mar 2006 · 8 comments

She took a plane down to Charlotte to catch the moonlight in her eyes. and as the she crashed in to the darkness of the East Kentucky pines I read the note beside the coffee that said, “I’m hollow.” and signed “Goodbye, don’t follow”. I spent the night out in the suburbs drinking bourbon with her dad. I never told him of the note and those five words or how I’d never felt so bad. As the sun broke the horizon the night turned yellow, and he said, “God’s a funny fellow”. I took a car back down to Mobile Bay to get some sunshine on my skin. As the wheels caressed the highway with gravity wearing on my grin; the dashboard Jesus doesn’t help me once again Please come back. Without you here I’m hollow.

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8 comments

[8] Ranger 19-Mar-06/3:50 AM Reply
Cool, very sad but not overdramatic. I do like the last line, the double possibility of you talking to her or to Jesus, and the mirroring of the first two lines of stanzas 1 and 3. Good to have you back!
[10] ALChemy 19-Mar-06/10:45 AM Reply
*NEW, from the people who brought you Dashboard Confessional.*

Sorry man, I'm just in one of those smartass moods.
[9] Jeremi B. Handrinos 19-Mar-06/1:21 PM Reply
into
[9] Dovina 19-Mar-06/4:36 PM Reply
Line three has an extra "the" and an inconsistently lower case "and." Line 4 needs a period, since the others do. And if you're into line-end commas, put one after s2l5. But the major stuff is really good.
[n/a] wilco › Dovina 19-Mar-06/4:42 PM Reply
Line 3 seems to have given me all kinds of fits...I guess that's the peril of writing at 3AM.
[8] ecargo 19-Mar-06/5:48 PM Reply
in the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine . . .

Nice ditty.
[9] Caducus 21-Mar-06/5:00 AM Reply
bloody good poem - i love it.

the title is wicked too.

favourited !
[7] Edna Sweetlove 21-Jun-06/3:02 AM Reply
A bit too location-specific for my taste. As a matter of interest why are so many Americans local town-specific, mentioning little towns no one else has heard of? Would you no be confused if I wrote a poem all about Tenterden or Woolwich Arsenal or Beckenham Junction? Surely it detracts from universality?