unremarkable
- NO ACUTE FINDINGS
- SUBJECT ACCOMPANIED
- RESULT: UNREMARKABLE
“The kindest word I ever got, and I almost believe it”
Written in the sections of a medical report: findings, observation, impression. The scan comes back unremarkable, the word doctors use for good, and she reads it twice in the parking lot.
Someone stays. He makes the coffee wrong and tells her about his day, and she answers the dinner question as if she were being assessed. The ordinary morning Part I asked for arrives here, and she is still learning how to read a kindness.
LYRICS / TRANSCRIPT
Findings
Nothing to report today
No fever and no event
I woke, I ate, I answered messages
I can't say where the hours went
The scan came back unremarkable
Which is the word they use for good
I read it twice in the parking lot
Like something I misunderstood
Observation
You stayed
You made the coffee wrong again
You stayed
You told me about your day
Second Findings
I keep a version of the leaving
Rehearsed and ready in my mouth
So when it comes I say it first
And nobody has to work it out
You ask me what I want for dinner
I answer like I'm being assessed
Old habit of reading every room
And I can't read a kindness yet
Impression
If the story is the damage
What am I without the plot?
Someone's ordinary morning
At three, I smile and watch the clock
At four, I ask your hands to stay
Wasn't this kind of private language
Always miles away?
The thing I built my name on
Didn't visit me today
Residual
Nothing to report today
And nothing came to take it
You stayed
And I let the evening happen
Final Finding
Unremarkable
Unremarkable
The kindest word I ever got
And I almost believe it
Hidden Outro
I love you.
- ARTIST
- Haylie Ferguson
- EDITION
- the bell jar: victoria lucas
- LABEL
- Maison Oblique Entertainment