Thursday, December 30, 2004

Indelible Suburban Memories

- The girl I saw at Wal-mart one summer afternoon wearing cut-off jeans and dancing quietly with herself to Sugar Ray's "Someday"
- Buzzing flourescent lights, clean linoleum floors, white-washed walls
- Fast-food, drive thru, the manager at Pizza Hut
- Riding in the backseat
- Walking home from school
- Dinners and movies
- The park
- Joy, numbness, complacency, contentedness, angst
- Television, Nintendo, Super Nintendo
- The public library on a Saturday morning, books about dinosaurs
- A lawn, a backyard, a swing set, a treehouse (sort of)
- Buried treasure, a time capsule (Is it still there?)
- Baseball caps
- Grocery stores
- STOP signs, sidewalk gutter drains

Every year I get older. How much of this am I leaving behind?

1 comment:

adaraleigh said...

1. you walked home from school?
2. that girl in walmart was me. except i was in jersey, and it was a different song, and it was target.
3. complacency should always be followed quickly by angst, lest it take you over.

loveA.