• It was not my intention to make such a production of the emptiness between us, playing tuba on the tombstone of a soprano to try to keep some dead singer's perspective alive. It's just that I could have swore you had sung me a love song back there; and that you meant it.

  Source: Poetry Hurling Crowbirds at Mockingbars

  Buddy Wakefield
  American poet and actor
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. perspective
2. emptiness
3. tombstone
4. playing
5. soprano
6. singer

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It was not my intention to make such a production of the emptiness between us, playing tuba on the tombstone of a soprano to try to keep some dead singer's perspective alive. It's just that I could have swore you had sung me a love song back there; and that you meant it. by : Buddy Wakefield

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