red

i know how this looks  

wrapping you like a mummy 

because it's halloween  

and now i look like your mommy 

on my knees wrapping your ankle 

saying hi to your old friend  

in the backyard  

she helps you fill  

the giant plastic bin  

for apple bobbing  

asks if i'm your girlfriend  

you tell her kind of  

now it's just me and her  

i'm smoking a cigarette outside 

she tells me and asks what i

think

i am perplexed  

and guarded  

i can't understand  

why they're always  

so curious about you  

but instead i say  

that's cute  

and i'm happy  

that was the last day  

i was happy  

for a while 

memories of that night are 

red and watery  

the apples  

the devils  

her shiny horns  

all the devils  

everywhere 

you changed  

into red when  

the toilet paper  

that i wrapped you in 

got soaked  

and dissolved  

my shiny horns  

the red apples  

everywhere