23rd street the only girl i ve ever seen pumpkin street lights i was just 14 you were not sick you hit your head on the brick wall quick comprehension gold rings and waterfalls we lived a fleeting convention but i felt constant in others absence your mama barely awake and your faint light heart i was stuck from the start trophy of mine high school football games enemy lines i think both sides feel the same paris in the back of your mom s chevrolet she pretends we re not there she smells like yesterday we live like the last two on earth and we ll float on our backs til the whole sky goes black and your fresh mind concentrated all the water we re made of til you evaporated my mother says you are under our feet under the sidewalks under 23rd street