Games, words and nothingness

All that anyone including

Barry Mitchell

Could actually and peacefully

Do was to think about

Every moment until

Friday came and added some break in the mundane of

Growing-up in a small town that was neither

Here nor there.

Is it insane to want to change or

Just go about your business and

Keep quiet about it all while

Letting the adults in the world like

Mister Robinson and that old man

Nutterbug (as we called our teacher) who only

Occasionally seemed like a real person who

Put on normal clothes and didn't jangle

Quarters in his pocket on dates or wander

Round the store looking for a date when we knew he got them off the

Street corner in the bad part of town where they stood on the bus

Turnouts waiting for the next car to come by

Until the dawn broke and they went home to sleep or play

Video games or maybe

Watching romance movies until the drugs

X-ed out the fact that they were in the same place this

Year and nothing would change for them without

Zero effort put in to make a difference.

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