TICKET STUB MEMORIES
Pressed between cellophane
The torn halves of two ancient amusement park tickets
And a strip of black and white fun-house photos
(two boys grinning goofily -- one freckled-face,
the other, bespectacled, mouth full of metal)
Conjure images of a summer day long past
Neon lights and pinball machines
Buttered popcorn and soda-sticky concrete floors
We were inseparable then
Blood Brother buddies
Made from a pen knife and spit
Time stood still then
There was time for everything
Now. . .
Time has overtaken us
I had my suit pressed
And my shoes polished
I would say my final good-bye later
When he was laid beneath the grass
But for now, memories will have to do.
About this poem
This poem was inspired by a pair of ticket stubs I had to a play I saw in London.
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Written on October 10, 1999
Submitted by ajmiz827 on November 10, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 665 |
Words | 119 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 8, 1, 4, 1 |
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