Flashes and photos

      and hair done and shoes on

 car ride           and            flashes and photos

      “Smile? Cheese!”—

            “Okay, you’re done.”

and shoes off        and music on

     glitter on the floor,

    paper cities glowing on

          but florescent lights off

and balloons up

      but down: our feet

—twist     and     turn,

fast then     slow      and fast again—

      the way we move,             our emotions,

how we feel and how we act:

 f l u c t u a t i n g  with  the  music—

      arms-linked,      skip____ping

               meeting—

        leaving

    —caked with black dirt

and silver sparkles,

     painted nails and

goodbye songs—

      like that cliched Vitamin C

                  one—

and     tears   and    make-up     redone.

               Emotions:

   yellow and

“these memories playing like a   film   without   sound”

         blue   and   black         and back to

 yellow      like         buttercups

“we’d get so excited we’d get so scared”           or bright green

       and then cloudy gray          and

slow sways to   lyrics   and   rhythms—

 “we will still be friends forever….”