Hit Your Shins on the Chandelier

pale on the stairs, she's scared, she's scary, and she sure is swaying,

saying something like, " don't save me if it will take you too"

the children keep leaving in the middle of the night

and the world writhes a little

in a way that everyone can kind of feel, it's delicate,

you can't see it unless you have a chandelier

even then, the shiver is so long and soft

you might mistake it but

there's something wrong it's been wrong for so many years

elliott smith is anyone awake too long

everything feels silly when it's pretty

and things like cinnamon and things like ships

and things like lanterns and things like cedars

are night gowns

for ghost towns

BY MAREN HOOPFER