Liner Notes for Taylor Swift's "1989"

by Leigh Chadwick

“Welcome To New York”

I never follow my emotions home from the bar. Walking home from the bar down streets still covered in decades old dust — something cancerous and stained — I buy a piece of pizza and only eat the crust. I wonder if my husband will always be good at being my husband. I keep walking and my mind wanders, slips, grows a wither, and then …