Happy Days
these sidewalks are littered
with slowly fading memories
their edges are folding up
colors draining from the images
already Terrace Bagels has changed
it shrank then grew again
Thomas Wolfe once more proved right
but at least the bagels are still good
I’m three blocks from “our” place
waiting for the person you were jealous of
funny how relationships turn out
how I cling to what I can
outside the cafe door a woman
shakes a paper cup in the wind
she’s singing a song I can’t hear
as one person after another passes her by
just in case the point needed to be made
the theme from Happy Days starts playing
I watch my own reruns for a moment more
then turn off the channel and stand to hug my friend
/ / /
22 March 2014
Terrace Bagels
Windsor Terrace
Brooklyn, NY
