My Ghosts - a poem

Lucas says

I got my ghosts from the Chelsea.

I suppose that could be true.

I can't remember

(the trouble sleeping)

before the Chelsea.

I am sure (I had nightmares 

before my 

(divorced)

father moved us to the Chelsea Hotel.

It was in elementary school that I became aware

and obsessed

with ghosts.

Wonder how many kids

made their stories up?

(Mine were true.)

We would huddle in the closet.

Swap stories.

Then one time in college

we were five of us

(in a bed.) Telling ghost stories.

and Hawaiian Ledgends.

This one guy says "Wow,

You must have a Dark

---spirit

following you

or something. 

And it hit me.

I have ghosts.

Must have picked them up in the Chelsea.