I Remember

I awake on a chilly Christmas morning
 Watch the choirs singing carols on TV
 I gaze out through my window at a dozen other windows
 Then I plug in my artificial tree
 And like a dream, I begin to remember
 Every Christmas I used to know
 A thousand miles away
 A milion years ago
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 I remember sky
 It was blue as ink
 Or at least I think
 I remember sky
 I remember snow
 Soft as feathers, sharp as thumb tacks
 Coming down like lint
 And it made you squint
 When the wind would blow
 And ice like vinyl on the streets
 Cold as silver, white as sheets
 Rain like strings and changing things
 Like leaves
 I remember leaves
 Green as spearmint
 Crisp as paper
 I remember trees
 Bare as coat racks
 Spread like broken umbrellas
 And parks and bridges, ponds and zoos
 Ruddy faces, muddy shoes
 Light and noise and bees and boys
 And days
 Oh, I remember days
 Or at least I try
 But as years go by
 They're a sort of haze
 And the bluest ink
 Isn't really sky
 And at times I think
 I would gladly die
 For a day of sky