the wires are humming again she's covering her ears while eyes flicker and breath quickens she asked me to help her **** the parts that hung off her like the tails of ghosts that she claims trace the hallways she tried to cut out the hardware that embedded itself in her skin I could hear the metal hitting the floor as I lay asleep but when I awoke she claimed it was only the bugs dancing in the night they knocked over the candles and that blew out the light I used to believe everything she said when she used to talk about how the sky was every color she said she could see them in my eyes my eyes are darker than night now the sun lives downstairs but he rarely comes to check on us anymore