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I Miss The Crab Apple Orchard, And Pretending To Be A Knight
Life has an odd habit
of making you miss
old street curbs and
stop signs.
The street I miss
the most, though,
has to be the cross
street between the
crab apple orchard
and my friend
Jacksons
house.
Something about that
place felt infinite. And
something about sometimes
friends feels greater than
sometimes.
Would I go back?
Absolutely not.
Because it was by my
old elementary school,
and going there would
only remind me of all
the times being a kid
was enough.
I think it stopped being
enough when I got to
the ending of "Stand By
Me." And I realized that
River Phoenix was dead.
Or maybe it ended when
my brother got a girlfriend,
and I developed a bad habit
of sleeping in,
to ignore the fact
that I was undesirable,
and that my brother didn't
want to play games or talk
to me anymore.
I miss my brother.
I miss Jackson.
And I miss that green
park that was right behind
his house.
And I especially miss
that old crab apple orchard
where I wasted whole
afternoons reading up on the
adventures
of Tom Sawyer
and Huck Finn.
Tell me,
are there any
street curbs you
miss?
Copyright ©
Alijah Rivers
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