slid the bangles down
my thumb
the slim brown seat belt keeps the floor
from being littered with clatter-thin
steel rings we got for a fiver at the reservoir
at Paddington same bright colours as
the
anodized metal cups we all had in
the sixties
childhoods roamed the east coast
in station wagons three in the back
two in the well
today you’d get pinched
then
it was the cups got all the padding
the kids rolled
loose and played
"the kids rolled loose and played" lord lord loosen today's kids up please :)
ReplyDeletethe windows down, someone car sick, but the horizon.....
ReplyDeleteLove this! Love the whole feel conjured in last stanza of longer than lifetimes summer and how safety wasnt a big issue then...now kids seem to have a crushing sense of time going so fast and they seem more in danger...Go, South Paw Poet! 💚
ReplyDeletefast and loose
ReplyDelete... life's cheap to that sort, Janet
(RHPS)