POETRY Reading: Back at 3240, by Laiba Usman
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1m 31s
Reading by Val Cole
POEM:
I find myself back at 3240
Where we used to sit at the back table,
Close to the bathroom in case we need
A hit of nicotine or a visit with mary.
They replaced the wooden tables
With cold marble, erasing
Our initials we carved
Into these tables on all those weekends
Spent with cake pops and comics
We never ended up reading.
I’m back at 3240
And they changed the parking lot
We aimlessly walked around
under strained street lights.
The gas station has a new generation
of fiends who might go through the
same as us. Yet nothing is
the same here anymore.
Kids don’t walk here anymore,
Nor do they rome what was once
An aimless field of washed out
White parking lines
Nothing is the same, because we aren’t kids
anymore. We’re not sixteen
So you’re not here
And here I find myself, back at 3240
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