I can't sleep.

A note to my sister Sue…….
I am intoxicated, and not sleepy enough to go to bed.
So, don’t get the wrong idea. I don’t actually have the answers to life’s questions, but I do know this.
It is better to have a bottle in front of me, than have a frontal, lobotomy.

I know you are the smart one, the most educated of the group of our end of town. But I some times think back to when we were kids in the 60’s. We really had it made. A pool at the end of the street. A play ground at the end of the street. Neighbors who would take you in, if Mom was not at home when you got out of school or when you couldn’t find her when you got home.

What ever happened to us?????

Did we grow that far from that place…..

I was talking with Big Daddy. You might remember him as David Petengal. (spelling) . He tells me that they don’t have a wading pool in Ilion, period. No East Street, No West Clark Street, No wading pool anywhere in Ilion…. Only the so-called Big Pool. That really sucks. I think back to all the stuff we had at that time to do. What are this generations kid’s going to do?
We really had it made.

But why am I talking about this??????
I have know Idea………
But it seems a waste of resources. The village has to many asshole’s running things now. They only care how good they look, not what they do…. I am glad I don’t live in Ilion any more, I hate to say.

But I still think of Garbage Heights. That was the greatest place to grow up. We had pear trees and a cherry tree in Ms. Geloso’s yard, wild Strawberry’s in the field behind the house, Black berry’s (black cat’s) as big as your thumb’s on the railroad tracks to pick, and any thing else we could pick or steal from everybody’s garden or yard. We knew everybody on our street, and what we could get from them, or what we could get away with….

I’m almost wishing I didn’t know what I know, now, I just can’t think that there is a place for any one to grow up like we did.
I almost feel Special….
Oops, I said the magic word. I really don’t think today’s kids can grow up in a place like we did.

But I hope someone try’s.

Like I said earlier, I have been having a good time tonight, and have had my fill of the alcoholic beverages and felt philosophically challenged to attempt this written communication. So I’ll end this at this point, and hope you don’t think less or more of me, because of my statements,that is.