runaway on a sunday

"Up in the hills around Coldwater Canyon
were the houses that hung

 from the mountainside on poles, 
balancing dangerously on the cliff,
like the spinning-plate act in a sideshow...

Dangerous homes where dangerous parties took place every night.

My blouse is thrifted.

Parties where nobody really knew
or even liked anyone else,
but we all pretended that we did. 


Parties where we talked a lot, but said very little.

My purse is also thrifted.

The years have gone on, and music
and fashion have changed,

but the spinning-plate homes still do their balancing act up there, 

and the spinning-plate people still throw parties full of strangers..."
by Cherie Currie from the book Neon Angel

by Cherie Currie

"Well, SAD, SMALL, sweet, so delicate
It used to be this dying breed
Well I've got a bad feeling about this
I've got a bad feeling about this

...Well sad, small, sure and porcelain
You're skin and bones, I'm a nervous wreck
Well I've got a bad feeling about this (when it comes to this)
I've got a bad feeling about this"...A Decade Under The Influence
by Taking Back Sunday