things are so bad now
in the world that i reminisce about my shitty childhood when there was no virus and toilet paper was a plenty summer was freedom walking the small town streets while my parents were working fear was hidden violence and hate were just a bad reaction like hives or a volcano every family watched tv together because they had to and it was enough to pretend we connected black flies bit you on the beach and it was just another relief to the frigid winters endless spaghetti canned vegetables and the cold slush that filled your cheap boots sunsets on swing sets the smell of hamburger frying in a pan cold winter days my mother smokes a cigarette in a department store while i hide in some circular rack of clothes everything that was supposed to be awful is beautiful now in the closets of my childhood home i found playboys and penthouses and my neighborhood friends had the same experience we talked about it in dead end streets with stolen candy bars in our pockets life is just an ashtray overflowing while mtv plays in the background it is white snake and some half naked girl on some red sports car and you are just a preteen wearing fluorescent yellow
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ATL
10/8/2021 07:52:54 pm
When I was a child back in the 70s, I thought life was not the best either. I used to live in the Philadelphia suburbs. I did not like the Philadelphia area as it felt too packed and cloistered compared to the country. I thought the people down there were all attitudes. Given the mistreatment in the public schools that feeling was reinforced. The public schools seemed bad then.I hated everything about the place. Little did I know then that youth is definitely wasted on the young, but that is life.
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