One More Verse

One for me

Two for you

Three more voices

Breaking through

Read it backwards

Read it twice

Poetry is paradise

Kelp is growing

Through my skin

Tell me where

Do I begin?

Sophia's laughing...

Blair says run...

Chihiro thinks

We're already gone...

Shh...

Don't hear them...

Read another line...

Quick!

One more verse!

One more rhyme!

Keep the fungus out my mind!

Don't stop now!

Count to four!

Someone's knocking

On the ocean floor!

Laugh with me!

Cry with me!

Which one's really...

Me?

One more verse!

One more page!

Keep us locked inside the cage!

Keats is breathing

Plath can swim

Every poem

Loses him

Library beneath the sea

Every book remembers me

Don't look down

Don't look back

Something's crawling

Through the cracks

Madison says

"Smile!"

Smile...

Smile...

Shh...

They're listening...

Read it louder...

NOW!

One more verse!

One more rhyme!

Keep the fungus out my mind!

Don't stop now!

Count to four!

Someone's scratching

At the ocean floor!

Laugh with me!

Cry with me!

Which one's really...

Me?

One more verse!

One more page!

Keep us locked inside the cage!

Fhtagn...

Fhtagn...

Can you hear them?

They're writing...

Inside our heads...

Stop reading...

DON'T STOP READING!

Four girls standing

None the same

Can't remember

Half our names

If we stop

The whispers win

Read another poem...

Again...

One more verse!

One more rhyme!

Keep the fungus out my mind!

Don't stop now!

Count to four!

We're still singing...

Maybe four...

Laugh with me!

Cry with me!

Maybe none of this is real!

One more verse!

One more page!

We'll be beautiful...

Until we fade...

Count to four...

One...

Two...

Three...

...

Who was four?

Fhtagn...

Fhtagn...