carolyn comes back from the bar shes not steady but oh shes ready to go she knows that gasoline will settle what the bourbon never can covers the basement and soaks the attic floor kids are with her mother and there isnt any other soul to see her as shes coming down the stairs take her name out of your phone drop her from your list of targets cast her file out to the wind carolyn wont answer any more you can hardly call it living if youre only passing time how you waste what youve been given years build out of days just slipping by and you think youve seen it all and you goddam surely know youve seen it all she leaves her children with a scar gone blurry like a pixelated star theyre too young to remember deep in the night she sets a fire from floor to roof its billowing down burning the dark away to beat back those whove seen it all