Ice Cream and Volkswagons

I remember those days
we would eat ice cream
and never gain a pound.
Going to the Tasty Freeze
ordering chocolate on chocolate.
Sitting at the booth with my sister,
talking to our new friends
and laughing.
So easy to laugh then at everything;
even ourselves .
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My son, in a Starkids’ video
This is too much fun and Jeff Blim’s genius makes it a great recording.
When We Were a Couple of Kids

This should be a blank page,
but it is not…
Because now we have little ones
massacred in playful steps
while celebrating their last
Days of school.
Receiving honors for hard work,
looking forward to hazy days
and ice cream reasons.
Instead it is replaced
with Gurneys carrying out limp
souls of young bodies
dangling from under discrete sheets.
Screams are heard in meeting
places as families receive the news.
Darkness takes place,
” when we were A couple of kids”
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I am a runner and I am not Poe, 😳 but I love this.
The clouds cover my run
As the birds sang me through
You must love the morning
And nature makes it about you .
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The shades are gone