loose lips sink ships

and we
danced around the water cooler,
demon glances gleaming
eyes aflutter,
tongues aflicker,
forked and long and snakelike
in the light
above the stair.

and we
made a paper chain of wishes,
ghosts of lungs and livers gone to waste
and phantom pheremonal scents lost between the drops of rain.

we
spun and we kicked and we made our goodbyes
we twirled and we jumped
and we crashed and we swore
as the world fell around us into dust and black stone.

we choked on our words
through the bones in our throats,
pain in our brains
and the ice
on the moon,

and we
danced with the devil in the pale moonlight.