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It was 2001 and we had a good thing going, you and me---

we managed to hold hands more than once a week---

and like each other all the more

And we took long walks along Trousdale,

parking our differences at the curb---

in favor of creating memories so that we could recall the turn of the century

That's what young people are good at---

immortalization

immunization

and being irrational about solitude

But this decade was different than all the others---

and one day someone else would say the same thing

and my notion won't be one of forethought

But the thing of it is---

there were all these times I wanted to be silly

and unable to recall my childishness the next morning

and now, in my old age,

I could remember every detail of what it felt like

to sit there dreaming sadly of the future