archiving life

i have been regulated

to archive life, scrapbook

family and friends - your face (as in life)

rarely shows up in photos, black & white

or otherwise

it was a Brownie camera

era when this one was clicked

a "Pepsi and a Double-Mint" time

from a now abandoned gas station

for you it appeared

a happier day, a moment of clarity

that never came - movement

that was not far enough away from this

by-passed hwy town - and Pepsi soon turned

to beer, beer to vodka - vodka into

mornings made up of party lines

until the party finally ended -

all that remains now

are windswept telephone poles, still

insulating old gossip - long after

i pasted you to the page

titled "Mother"...

bkmackenzie

copyrighted 2011

Posted for Magpie Tales