When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass

Tomorrow when I wake up, I?m finding my brother

And making him take me back down to the water

That lake where we sailed, and we laughed with our father

I will not desert him, I will not desert him

No matter, how I may wish for a coffin so clean

Or these trees to undress all their leaves onto me

I put my face in the dirt and then finally I'll see

The sky that has been avoiding me

I started this letter, I?m going to send it to Ruba

It'll be blessed by her eyes, on the gulf coast of Florida

With her feet in the sand and one hand on her swimsuit

She'll recite the prayer of my pen

Saying, "Time take us forward, relief from this longing

They can land that plane on my heart, I don?t care

Just give me November, the warmth of a whisper

In the freezing darkness of my room"

But no matter, what I would do in an attempt to replace

All these pills that I take, trying to balance my brain

See the curious girl with that look on her face

So surprised, she stares out from her display case