STL65 by Dad bruner
Northside - St. Louis
1965
Five years young
Aunt Joyces house
Linoleum floors
Flowered wallpaper
Wires hanging from the walls
Chicken & Dumplings
Ham & Beans
Dr. Pepper
Rabbit ears
Cousin Tommy
City water
Confectionaries
Church steeples
Pedestrian overpass
Freight trucks
Glass strewn sidewalks
Wrought iron fences
Brick streets
Doowop
Greasers
Vacant lots
Cigarette butts
Beer bottles
Night sounds
Concrete Baffles
The house still stands
I can see it from the Interstate
It seems off limits
I wonder if another child
will remember?
I hope so.