"Concessions" by Jessica Laser
I'm going with my first instinct here and calling this one "cardigan."
It's the line in the poem, "I saw you / everywhere, a few rows ahead at the movies, in line / for concessions at the stand" and the line in the song, "I knew I'd curse you for the longest time / chasing shadows in the grocery line" (an absolutely devastating line, in my opinion). I think it stuck out to me so quickly because I keyed in on that line the first time I heard "cardigan." How can you explain such a feeling, such an emptiness, and such a reaction so succinctly? It floored me.
I do think that this poem could also be in response to "exile," with the line in the poem, "Where did I put all that love / you gave me?" and the line in the song, "Holdin' all this love out here in the hall." Also, another shattering song, one that for a long time, I could barely listen to.
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