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Chapter Three – The Actress
As the young girl gets older, her father replaces her aging parts with spare nuts and cogs that he digs out of broken toys or clocks. He becomes quite an adept machinist, but his health slowly begins to deteriorate. Harassed frequently by the other school children, the young girl keeps to herself, performing one-act shows to an imaginary crowd in her doorway, while her father sits coughing in the living room after work, watching the news on television. She thinks frequently about how much he has sacrificed for her, and how hard he works. She wants nothing more than to make him proud. She is unaware that he is slowly dying of a mysterious, untreatable illness.

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The dresses you bought me don’t fit anymore / they just sit in stray piles like leaves on the floor / so I hang them like curtains draped over the door / and I twirl on my stage / it’s an act I adore
As you cough in the kitchen I’m starting the show / I imagine the feel of real skin in my clothes / as the crowd files in from the street side below / and you turn on the news, the fifth night in a row
What will my father think of me years from now / will I make him proud / I’ll make you proud / I’ll make you proud
The light from the T.V. it mirrors my shame / as news stories of scandal and war flood my brain / my performance is sound tracked by shouting and flames / and the newsman announces my final charade
The actress retreats for one final bow / and the audience rises and cheers all around / as the mean on the screen screams to tear this wall down / I’m enjoying the fiction I matter somehow
How will I make my father proud years from now / will I make him proud / I’ll make you proud / I’ll make you proud

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from Hello My Name Is I Was Born Without A Body, released August 19, 2016

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