Long Ago You No Longer Sleep On The Stairs by Marc Lengfield

​Long Ago You No Longer Sleep On The Stairs

By Marc Lengfield

Remember the night we became Cocteau
(though) not the autumn’s grace
You said sleep pretty people
I’m not human at all
Yet your face was a flock of young girls
That went on shining
Knowing everything must end

Remember when your bad girls poked holes in the sky
It was night again and the stars spilled out
Drinks and smokes amidst the banter of hipsters
Those were good times
The days traveling with lions
And gravy in the society of gravity
Until the machine became infected
With the dreams of brain-damaged children

I still can’t think through ghosts
Memory being so often cruel
On the page it says exactly
Where I’m going

But anything could happen
Just let me know



About the author: Marc Lengfield lives in Florida where he teaches Mathematics at a local university.