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Wilkes-Barre Writings

Paul Pikutis

Getting old when you get to the point that you remember where places “used-to-be”:
the store that had good used CD’s and imports,

the comic shop you grew up in
the place that sold beer to you at fourteen.
These realizations usually happen around mid-life if TV is to be believed.

Women remember all the things from high school, friends,
boyfriends of the week,
their boobs being perky, and all those things from the “glory days”.

Men reminisce about their first fake ID and the bar that bought the he was really a 23-year-old in a blue wool high school football varsity jacket. They remember their favorite make out spot and all the girls they took there.

Whatever number these men give you, subtract twenty. If you get a negative they never took anyone, only heard about it.

These thoughts don’t stop people from working or
breathing the next minute.
Those days are far, far gone.
Try the “crisis” in your early twenties.

You haven’t been gone that long and your hometown forgot all about you.



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