Francine

from Even The Happy Ones Are Sad by Carter Felker

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They Found her on the corner her name was Francine,
Twenty-six years old and a mother to be
She had a tattoo on her shoulder that read forever Dean.
A fifty in her pocket and a broken rosary.

There’s nothing like a murder to stir up a town
The doors get locked and the shades they come down,
Till the Sheriff says the perpetrator has been found,
Then it all gets forgotten about

Cause it’s seventeen fifty to go to the zoo,
Twenty-five if you include the icecream too,
When you could stay home and watch the news,
But you’d probably just get the blues.

Francine was a good girl, she never did no wrong
She was a saint until the day she was gone
When out one night and didn’t come back at dawn,
Her momma knew something was wrong.

She’d been fighting with her estranged ex-husband Dean,
He’d been shooting up instead of paying alimony,
A real ripe fruit from a violent tree
Dean was known to get rough with Francine

But the trail’s too far to go for a hike,
And it wouldn’t feel right drinking on a monday night,
So The man on the screen says coming up live
We’ll take you to the scene of the crime

Well the cops caught Dean just north of Duluth
They asked him the question and they wanted the truth
Dean denied but it weren’t no use
Forensics had all the proof

So they threw up a jury and a verdict was found
For laying his pregnant ex-wife in the ground
Dean Chinasky was to be put down
On a date they did not announce

And it’s a big cruel rock we ride round the sun
Trouble it happens to everyone
You can scream it ain’t fair at the top of your lungs
Some things can’t be undone

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from Even The Happy Ones Are Sad, released June 14, 2022

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Carter Felker Calgary, Alberta

Carter Felker traffics in music, yes, but even more profoundly in essence: the humdrum essence of Monday morning alarms clocks coming round again during lifetimes ticking on through thoughtless dawn moments walking across the kitchen floor; the craven essence of sneaking wordlessly away from a relationship and feeling the mute screen door sag shut behind you; the essence of everyday struggles -MLW ... more

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