And How Was My Youth Spent

And how was my youth spent? what a shadow of a childhood lived with daydreams in the sunshine Punch and Judy, Howdy Doody drunken snows and cancelled Christmas Fifties fever busy bellows pumping, pumping life for lasting lonely only lost in lilacs understanding not the learning nor anything concerning hearing words spoke loud and ugly school could bruise a perfect day really this was life’s pure test tenure of a time of failure more of loss instead of gaining fear, frustration, isolation that was how my youth was spent. 12/8/18