Richard F Yates picks up where R Martin Basden left off! Doesn’t poetry like this make you wish summer would never end?!
An Outing
By Richard F Yates
Walking to the store
kids on bikes
Smell of blackberry bushes
Music coming from the open door
of some unknown neighbor’s house
Gravel from unpaved alleyways
crunching beneath our feet
Littler kid grows tired
needs a push
Flowers crawl with ladybugs
Bald kid behind the counter
Ellie picks gummy worms and soda
Frankie gets Nerds and orange cream
I spy vanilla coffee
Whoppers
a water and a paper
Balancing drinks on handlebars
Stop at the school
I read the funnies
and pop Whoppers
Kids slurp pop and chomp sugar
then ride in circles
We head toward home
past flowers and ladybugs
alleyways and crunchy gravel
music house and blackberry smells
Up the stairs
and in
Yes, I remember some of that stuff.