General Poetry posted July 3, 2022


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Reminiscing

long as we were home for dinner

by Pangalactic

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Remember me
Saturday morning skinned knees
Cartoon trances
Walkie-talkies
Warm Chinook winds
Rolling down the Rockies

My baby teeth
Dangled bloody from a string
The day mom
Broke all her toes
When the water bed collapsed
And my older brother relapsed
Once again

But not before he taught me
How to huff paint thinner
His ten year old brother
Before I knew better

Brain cells swimming
In solvent fumes
Settling in to the
Rifts and valleys of
My fragile mind
like a mustard gas

Two and a half acres
Surrounded by the
Gravel roads of rural route two

Dead leaves packed in reeds
Had to do
For cigarettes

We bmx'd through
Dried up ditches
Flew over driveways

Threshed trails in
The open highways
Of neighborhood wheat fields

Wolves whispered from the wood
When we had the power of beasts
Senses piqued
Tweaked for speed
We'd run flat out
For weeks and weeks
Snot and Slobber
Running down our cheeks

Mom didn't care what the hell
We were doing out there..

As long as we were home for dinner

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