just like old times, part 4

by rhoda penmarq

the the tide started going out the diner was open 24 hours but not the metropolitan museum i bet your mother called you sweetie pie especially on the beach dad was a strange man how he loved the metropolitan museum! you liked it yourself remember the bus stop? strange people waited at it in tulsa oklahoma you liked tulsa oklahoma yourself when mother called you her little whatever because you were not so ordinary looking yourself especially with your evil smile spot was a good dog he waited for the bus like a person back in tulsa how about yourself? do you remember oklahoma? and spot, that wonderful dog that was how it all began on a rainy day with spot sleeping on the old couch and mother asking you to go to the drugstore because dad was acting strange and you were not so ordinary looking yourself