Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Paul, Beginning of Summer 1999

Do you blow kisses over your shoulder, behind you, in the car, when you are leaving the State?

And yes, I capitalized that for a reason.

Do you blow them and think of me?

Sometimes I think about how much other people are, or are not, thinking of me.  And that's kind of sad.  But if I start thinking about how sad that is, then I fall down the Wheaties box rabbit hole and we've talked about that before.

I wish you would look at me differently, the way I wanted to be looked at the night we were at Deering Bay, on the dock, with the heat lightning.

I wish you would take me by the hand, the way you did that day in May, when our palms were sweating but we didn't let go of each other.

I wish you would blow kisses on the edge of the panhandle when I wasn't with you.

And I wish you would tell everyone about how we knew each other when we were little ones at the turn of this century.

I wish you would. Could.  This time.


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