She lives in the house over there
She’s peeling paint off the ceiling
A marooned girl skipping in the moonlight
She’s nine years old
A thin smile and tired eyes
Her clothes are barely held together
The invisible girl walking on dusty roads
She’s nine years old
She has a friend and he lives over there
He smokes the peppermint cigar
Invisible in the daylight
He’s all she has in the world
He’s ninety years old
She sits with him in the morning
He feeds her pancakes in the afternoon
They’re reading the funny papers together
These are the best years of his life
He’s ninety years old
They lie on the cot in the backroom
With lunar sneaking in the windows
They’re drinking green fairy from the bottle
The sun comes up
They’re zero years old
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