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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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No Rules Poetry Contest Contest Winner
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