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What's Cremation?

from Good. by The Sawtooth Grin

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“Daddy, What’s cremation?” He said to me, misty eyed.
How am I supposed to reply? With a riddle? A white lie?
Truth’s hourglass falls a heavy grain.
I close my eyes and ponder loss.
Crafting what tomorrow’s grief deserves today.
“In the morning, we’ll mourn our dead,
because the seasons have had their say.
What made her will be as gone as God,
so we’ll set what’s left ablaze.”
Gather the dust in a handheld grave,
like huckle bearers in a procession.
Ever fading from your mind as your tears dry.

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from Good., released October 31, 2022

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The Sawtooth Grin Providence, Rhode Island

Sawtooth subverts common expectations of grind by saturating their tunes in thick layers of harmonic and rhythmic prose, piling on even more emotional weight to their beastial vocal barrage. Spun into a dizzying web of tension and release, you laugh or cry or slam your steering wheel; red-faced, and begging for more. ... more

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