you unwrap the paperwrapping and you find

a cartridge of film

These are the caps from the bottles of Scarpia’s Bitter Black Ale that you and I drank in Al’s backyard that night. I can see the stars bright and prickly and our breathing steamy in the cold, you in your team jacket and me in that cardigan you hated so much. I guess I should've known better. I should've seen the signs.

Al just shook his head, probably because I was smiling, I guess. I guess I was smiling, the party over and these bottle caps burning in my pocket. Take them back, Ed. Here they are. Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.

open matchbox

go through brown jacketinstead

go through the box

back home