Long Way Down — I Wanted to Unload

I WANTED TO UNLOAD,

just tell him

about Shawn,

and how Mom

cried and drank

and scratched

herself to sleep,

how I was feeling,

The Rules, all that.

Wanted to

tell him everything

in that stuffy elevator,

but held back because

Buck,

Dani, and

Uncle Mark

were watching

with warm, weird faces.