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The Way We Were

August 19, 2016 by fpdorchak

Nevermore. (Image by Gustave Doré [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)
Nevermore. (Image by Gustave Doré [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)
A prose poem about looking back.

Memories.

Days gone past.

Remembering past movies, mindsets, and a sense of public decorum.

And, okay, a few ties to other works. I think I can get away with that last word….

But nothing is ever perfect. As we remember it. There are always dark shadows (pardon the veiled pun).

Change is what it is.

This poem has never been published. Probably should have stayed that way.

 

The Way We Were

© F. P. Dorchak, 2003

 

We would never die and never grow old

Polite to each other

Always young

NYC known for publishing, Greenwich Village, “The Big Apple”

HIV was no more than just three letters in the alphabet

Gas was under a dollar

Our dreams were on fire

We could change the world

Nothing could get in our way

Stephen King was It

Nevermore

 

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Filed Under: Fun, Leisure, Short Story, To Be Human, Writing Tagged With: Decorum, Edgar Allan Poe, Gas, It, Memories, NYC, raven, Sickness, Stephen King, The Lost Boys

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