Big Winter Jacket - Cayucas

In your big winter jacket

Rain boots covered in mud

On your older sister’s

'95 Air Max Jordans

Baseball card in the spokes

Sweatpants and soaking wet ski gloves

And you knew there’d be vultures

in and around

Underneath the darkness closing in from every corner

And the rain pours down

Too afraid to look over your shoulder

Casted shadows from beneath the stairs

And it’s seems that there’s no explanation

Breathing heavy, you’re frightened, you’re scared

There are ropes attached to hinges that were latched above the door

And it opened once the wheels began rolling down the floor

And it lifted up slowly as the weight began to drop

Left you hanging by your ankles at the very, very top

You hatched out a plan

It was written in the pages of your notebook

Step by step instructions that you folded up and kept in a box

But you never, never

But you never forgot

Gung ho

All the way down to 31st

And by the fraternities

Through the halls of Hickey Gym

And was the college auditorium

From your bedroom you would hear the drummer drum

When the band began to play

There were raffles and consolation prizes