9. sean robert and jesse

I read the names engraved but never spoke ‘em

I spent all day just wondering who they’d be

Maybe only Easter-see-you children

Maybe summer long day friends for me

Acid-dripping resin lines the darkroom

Other people’s faces, most for pay

Dodging eight on Kodak from New Jersey

These shots wash out pangs a different shade

Red glow

Hang alone

Red glow

Strange to know the truth

Losing things like car keys on a show day

Or sleeping late through infomercial night

Little moments colored by depression

Little joy, the blinds drawn on

Zoning out of frame, the sharp shatter glass

Sorry lowdown nothing from the past

What did you feel? 

Did you feel?

Questions I can’t ask and aren’t real

Family pain we buried

By the fence

Red glow

Hang there alone

Red glow

Feels like I know you

Red glow

Hang there alone

Red glow

Feels like I know you

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