music can bring you back
to a different place, time
a saw a friend from high school days
she reminded me of our mutual appreciation of Supertramp
I started listening to the songs and it was instantly 1979
I was 16
big hair, Dittos jeans, Candies shoes
football games, proms and disco
dancing and eating ice cream sundaes
young and silly
roller skating up and down the streets of downtown DC
Armand’s pizzeria in Tenley
all night phone conversations on a land line
blue eye shadow and peach lip gloss
days long gone
but never forgotten
I took the long way home
