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Painters

 

Painters have long fingers

Which play on pianos

Outside the windows

Of children

At night

When it’s raining

And make them dream

Of trying to get home

Before the birds

Eat their breadcrumbs up.

 

And they make lines

In the covers

Where little boys hide

From the snakes

That are trying

To pull them away

From their mothers

Who say,

"It’s just a nightmare."

 

But sister knows

She never loved them

And hands her fat little brother

A bone

For the witch to feel of.

 

Then creep back

Across the ceiling

On hairy legs

Where beads of color

Drip

Red neon

Reflections

In the tears

Of a little drunk man

Who does

Smell like gingerbread.

 

But never really

Ever was.

 

--- Naman Crowe