Tiffany's

delilah works at the carousel bar in the hotel monteleone  

she gets dizzy sometimes when the faces don’t change as the people come and go  

she likes to look out the window into the lamp shop across the street  

where daisy glows like an angel, turning on the tiffanys 

 

when daisy was a kid  

the sun used to kiss  

the freckles onto her nose  

but since getting this job she stuck inside  

and she’s pale as a ghost  

she spends her life in the artificial bright  

the shop by day, spotlights at night  

she loves her life but regrets that she’s living it alone  

 

all it would take is  

a glance over at the merry go round  

delilah has been patient  

and daisy is looking over now  

 

delilah is writer, sneaks her journal under the bar 

and when it’s slow at the shop, daisy's boss lets her strum on her guitar  

every couple of hours their gazes synchronize 

and they write and write about the stars they see in each other's eyes 

  

now delilah’s leaving letters pressing em underneath the door  

and when the locks come off the lamp shop, daisy’s checking the floor  

she keeps em in her cigar box but god is she looking forward  

to when the secret admiration is not a secret anymore 

 

all it would take is  

coming over from the merry go round  

delilah has been patient but she can’t wait! 

she’s walking to lamp shop now 

  

delilah skipped with a pocket full of tips to the other side of the street  

over the fanfare of doorbell, she asked for “one chandelier please”  

daisy laughed and daisy asked her preference on which one  

“the one with the fewest zeros, i’m saving for this date i’m going on”  

 

daisy felt her heart sink and her face turn pink, she took a keychain off of the rack. 

she couldn’t look in delilah’s eyes when she said “this is the cheapest chandelier we have” 

 

she left the store that night in a storm cloud 

turned the corner and who did she see  

but delilah leaning on a lamp post  

spinning the keychain round her pinky  

daisy said “wait, what about your date? you’ll be late if you don’t run.” 

delilah said “if you’re not busy, i was hoping you would come”