Late Night Dance Parties

By: Reanna Marchman


We are snakes with dislodged jaws
Eating oranges whole
Dancing in darkness
With glow sticks all around
Moving our nonexistent
Feet and hands
To the beat
A coil that keeps
Moving
Spitting gold fish across
Into another’s open mouth
Late into the night
We turn back time
Water flies
And I
Can hardly breathe
Hysterics take over
With wet floors
We slip on
But don’t care and fall and bruise our knees
Wrestling for the spout and hiding in
Locked bathrooms
Where we spray each other with perfume
And splash H20 out the cracks
With wide teeth we laugh
And eat
Then finally relax with our dislodged jaws hanging open
Eating oranges
And watching into our vision the static pass.