Shatterchild

& we are suspended in a place with no doors
& no time and we cannot rewind & we are
running out . of . time . & we are
ampers&s in the s& and we will wash away quietly when we
all fall down because we . are . children and children
accept their fates because Mommy told us that
we will be safe & it's better this way if
Daddy just sleeps in the basement for . a . while . &
we welcome this sigh-lence. & welcome this
sigh - lence.

Please be qui-et. For . a . while . because
Mommy's got a headache & she . can't . think with your noise, you silly girls and boy-oy-oys.

& we are suspended in a place with no doors like
a modern Anne Frank and we do not see the escape that comes with
dying in anonymity & writing our lives away

we are just breakable, breakable, breakable, breakable...
ellipses which claim to be dashes -- hands that
reach too far and break their fingers

& please be quiet
because
Mommy has a headache &
you are just
we are just
children

who break.