You can't skip over the third stair
if you're sneaking into the kitchen
because all the stairs creak,
just in different ways.
They don't talk about the light
in the closet
the frayed string that keeps getting shorter and shorter
until you stand on tiptoes
and grasp through the dark
for it,
then pull
to turn on the lights.
The shelves are all a mix
of dusty old books
that you probably couldn't open,
or they'd fall apart,
and art projects your sister brought home last week.
They do get right
that it's not all good
or bad.
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