02-01-2014, 10:15 PM
To me, this was about living with a roommate for a few months through summer. Things didn't go so well and one roommate was becoming increasingly PO'ed with the other. On Halloween night the annoying roommate throws a party or has some sort of gathering that goes on into the early hours of the morning. The annoyed roommate can hear them from his room. He can't sleep and he fantasizes about killing the other roommate. The last line is the author looking back on those years when he was younger and wilder. I love the lines "flash burns on walls, etched radioactive hieroglyphs" and how it relates a photo to ancient hieroglyphs, in that, they are used to tell the story of ones life.