05.10.14 - 8:27 p.m.

you were seven when you and douglas, slipper
footed, rode the elevator to the ballroom while your
babysitter peed. in pajamas you two
found your parents who escorted you back
one seething, another simply there.
she's an instigator, you heard him spit from
the adjoining room, and nobody argued. just
apologized.