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

just like old times, part 3

by rhoda penmarq

not in a roadside diner what a cute little dog and so it all began in columbus ohio it all began not in ronnie’s roadside diner on a rainy day or a bus stop the buses run every hour you’re not so ordinary looking on a rainy day in columbus ohio you’re a strange man shall we begin? not in a roadside diner in lexington kentucky on a rainy day not in the metropolitan museum i bet your mother called you cutie pie “i am afraid i did not make myself clear” back in columbus ohio or tulsa oklahoma and yourself? not on the beach to the sound of crashing waves “as long as you are sincere” not in the metropolitan museum

just like old times, part 2

by rhoda penmarq

you don’t think they followed us all the way here from reno, do you? i wouldn’t put anything past them but that was before i met you we have to do something we are running out of time i don’t know how to say it then don’t try i am going to take a look outside why? don’t you want to live any more? the sound - it is closer now you made me what i have become but we have to do something after all this time they followed us all the way here i never would have believed it how they must hate us hatred must be all they have what did you do to them anyway? what did i do to them? what did you do to them? not that it matters now give them credit - they waited a long time longer than our love yes, you heard what i said and i will say it again our love is dead as dead as we will be when they come through the door

just like old times, part 1

by rhoda penmarq

“here we are again” i felt so strange and then i met you there is still time did you hear that? i thought i heard something i didn’t want to live any more there is still time but we have to act fast you’re a strange man did you hear that? outside in the parking lot “i never really knew you until now” they followed us all the way here i don’t know how to say it i thought i heard something you made me look at the stars agan i didn’t want to live any more all the way from oakland it’s been a long time because you’re a strange man you could say that but i didn’t want to live any more or at least from carson city you are right - i hear it i remember the first time i met you outside in the parking lot!