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Doing Sweden in a T4 Camper van
We sleep together like a curly ampersand
Every morning write our names in different sand

I like the way you speak your languages
I like the way you make your sandwiches
Wonder what your joy and anguish is.

All our dreams and circumstances
Percolating through the driving distances
Breaking through the cold resistances

We’re like children on a Treasure Island
Whose the noisy one and whose the silent one
Whose the follower and whose the driver on

I like our eyes I like the way we sway
I like the things we think the words we say
I like the smiles of us the playful way
We swarm and spin
Make tangles, triangles
Configurations, constellations,
Conceits and conversations
then swarm and sing
then begin again

I like the way you speak your languages
I like the way you make your sandwiches
Wonder what your joy and anguish is.

Got a map a ticket and a mystery
Now you’re digging through some deep dark history
Can I tell you how it really is to me?

Fall fall falling
Into the space between us all
For for for forming
These associations

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from What Didn't Quite: The Nearly Songs, released October 7, 2016

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Chris & The Ifso London, UK

Digital writer and nearlyologist Chris Ifso makes digital and transmedia fiction including songs, sound, live workshops and performance. The Ifso Band are Chris on ukulele, Alistair McEachern on bass, Abbie Coppard vocals, Iain Stewart on guitar.

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