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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 that cross-street
between the crab apple
orchard and my friend
Jackson’s 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 of the times
when 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 old crab
apple orchard where I
wasted whole afternoons
reading all about the
adventures of Tom Sawyer
and Huck Finn.
Tell me,
are there any
street curbs
you miss?
Copyright ©
Alijah Rivers
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