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Je Me Souviens

i remember dusting bookshelves and it just spread more dust over everything.

i remember when rollerblades were popular.

i remember staying up late and watching electronic music videos from europe on mtv.

i remember pool water shooting up my nose and how awful it is.

i remember my dad would have me pour gasoline on weeds.

i remember stealing frederick’s of hollywood catalogs and getting the mail all the time to ‘intercept’ them.

i remember sitting in the cigna health clinic waiting room bored out of my mind.

i remember getting carsick all the time in the back of the station wagon.

i remember crawling into the trunk of the red Buick for some reason.

i remember being obsessed with the attic space although there wasn’t actually much to it.

i remember the neighbor cat Pistol and how mean he was. Still, he was very cute too.

i remember the tumor on our dog Pip’s forehead and picking at it a little bit.

i remember squeeze-its.

i remember ‘inventing’ board games and spending hours on them.

I remember getting a ping pong ball gun from the Newberry store.

i remember the smell of new gi joes

i remember microwaved spaghetti

i remember pogs and ‘slammers’

i remember when Tupac died, but not Kurt Cobain

i remember eating so much candy corn i felt sick.

i remember using A drive and B drive.

i remember having to comb my hair 4 different times before going to school or it would be ‘a bad day’

i remember “butts up” wallball and being terrified of the ball thrown at my backside

i remember the heavy knobs of the record player

i remember the deep feeling of dread when both parents would come home drunk and fighting, and holding my pillow to my ears to block it out

i remember line leaders

i remember fish sticks

i remember telling a mormon boy the sun would one day explode into a red giant, swallowing the earth and he got upset and told the recess aide on me

i remember winchell’s donuts

i remember playing with the sprinkler by the pool and it was double the fun of both

i remember trying to make orange juice from decorative oranges

i remember doing nativity play at christmas and Houdah the cat was baby Jesus

i remember Angus, Boston, Playcoo, Houda, Ciccio, Gina, Cisco and Pancho (all cats)

i remember Barro’s Pizza

i remember those crackers (?) in swensen’s ice cream

i remember washing in the backyard with soap (?) and soap going down my peehole and it hurt like hell

i remember my first haircut at a Supercuts or was it a Great clips and liking how my hair looked with hairspray

i remember dancing to kylie minogue’s version of Locomotion when it was big

i remember Pac-man at a dentist’s office

i remember playing ‘Toilet Monster’ at the playground jungle gym

i remember grass clippings in the alley dumpster and how bad they smelled

i remember once sneaking out of bed at christmas and looking at all the presents in the dark then going back to bed.

Tall Tale

I lived on Big Mountain
in a hole in the ground
(I had a hole in my head
but that’s a different story).
The woman made cherry pies
And left them at the hole.
We were not speaking for quite some time,
rather we communicated only via
our own sign language.
Pies were a part of this sign language.
There I was,
spitting cherry stones on the ground
when a beautiful buck
graced these backwoods.
I didn’t have nothing but bird-shot,
so I eyed those cherry pits
and loaded ‘em up
And as quick as I could muster fired
straight at the buck’s head–
He darted back,
a little stunned,
I’d got him,
But the stones didn’t do much.