Sunday Muse - Memories - NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Three

An old diner / along the road

It brings memories / of my youth 

Meals on weekends / the food was good 

Minor item / there's so much more 

More to tell so here goes / the diner in my mind sat beside the sidewalk / had parking in the front / behind was a lush green lawn belonging to the "Y"

The YWCA is / may still be there today / I dated her / she worked where I was but a different floor / she made watches I made proximity fuses for the Navy torpedoes / Elgin National Watch factory 

She was my first Steady / we both were young / not twenty-one / teens I think / she liked my hot rod Ford / we'd ride and ride and then park and park in the dark / we'd get hot and bothered / touchy too / but we never disobeyed / disobeyed our mothers not 

She had to be in the Y by eleven / she always was / we didn't drink or do drugs / real nice kids / but after I took her home I'd cruise some more / sometimes party with the boys / 

or race my Ford out on the Interstate not yet opened / I'd built up the engine myself / my Ford would outrun the Chevys 

then one day her old boy friend came home from the wars / my girl was not my girl anymore / she left town quit her job / didn't tell me goodbye / I never saw her again 

don't regret our time together / well over a year 

I never minded that diner again 

But still it's IN my mind / won't go away 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2022, All Rights Reserved 

 - I am linked with Carrie at the Sunday Muse #205 for the Prompt Photo at 

http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2022/04/sunday-muse-205.html?m=1 

 - I have linked this write  with NaPoWriMo 2022 at 

https://www.napowrimo.net/ 

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