Lee wears superman boxers
and tells his kid
“everything’s going to be all right”
after a nightmare breaks 2:37am silence

Darnell wears a cape
and becomes a kid as he yells
“everything is going to be all right”
and leaps out from the closet to save his basset hound

Cindi draws an ‘S’ in red
and tells herself
“everything is going to be all right”
as she wolfs down 7 more little white ones

Grant, hands on his throbbing skull,
searches for a phone booth but they’re all gone
“nothing’s ever gonna be the same”
he folds himself into a chair and waits.