Do you

a conversation

remember how we usta sit

on the stone staircase by the liquor store

across the street from the specific ocean

late at night, ruminating and medicating

under a partly-cloudy sky?

 

how the minutes turned to hours

and the darkness into day as we toasted Shakespeare and

the power of literature,

the politics of war

and the glory of mead.

 

remember how we watched the world walk by

wondering how so many couldn’t see what was falling apart,

while our hearts thundered at

the outrage of apathy.

 

never mind our complicity

in the compromises made-

such a notion nineteen could not comprehend.

 

in the end, Time conquers and enthusiasm fades

as we take our place among the living dead. the rent is due,

the car won’t start and all that is left of youth

is the memory of the possibilities, the hopes left behind

on a stone staircase by the liquor store.   

Reviews

[emmajoygreen]

Powerful yet thoughtful truth.. no hidden thoughts here but the raw moment by moment realism that young people see before they're near forced to 'behave' or go 'overboard' . Your finish is as near a biography that a few near tragic sentences can be.

' in the end, Time conquers and enthusiasm fades
as we take our place among the living dead. the rent is due,
the car won’t start and all that is left of youth
is the memory of the possibilities, the hopes left behind
on a stone staircase by the liquor store.'

You write superbly, This was written way back.. wish you were still posting in here.

[Tomás Ó C..]

Yes, when young we know nothing and believe in everything, and when older believe in nothing and know everything...

[Hedra Helix]

this sucker is being published! woot!

[Chloe Madison Taylor.]

This is kickass.
and weird, because me and my friends really do sit outside the liqour store near my house sometimes.
and the ending is a bit of reality I never want to accept.

[Hedra Helix]

f**k i love this, most straight soulful thing ive read in awhile.


Hi, im Ivy, *waves* nice to read you. thank you for sharing this. i so get it.
medicating at a specific ocean.

[Jim Bob]

Keep hove alive! Just saying...sidestep the rest of the living dead, go hungry or crazy if you must, but don't succumb. Good stuff.