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| jburt1 (profile) wrote, on 8-5-2003 at 5:47am | |
| Current mood: tired but nostalgic |
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| Whenever my mind is let to wander, it returns to a place, an image forever burned into my mind, of a darkened, deserted "Activity Center" belonging to the Drakes Ponds Apartments. For a while, that was my second home. I hung out with my friends and met new ones there. Together, we could watch tv, play nitendo, or face-off in air-hockey. My ten year old self is permenantly frozen there in time, which leads me to wander through the abandonned catacombs of my mind that reveal what my old town, Kalamazoo, was like to me. I can still remember the curving road out of Drakes Pond that became a pathway to the movie theater, the store, or the mall. I remember being able to walk up to the theater, which was really the only living thing in an dead, vaccant mall. I remember walking to the strip mall where I would buy my x-men cards or rent a video game from blockbuster. I remember going bike riding with friends to the real mall, which had a k-mart, sbarro's, t.e. merche's, montgomery wards, jacobsons, an arcade, a music store, a bike shope, and an exterior ice cream restuarant. I remember going grocery shopping with my mom at either the out-dated Spartan store or the updated Jewel/Osco (which was something of a mix between a Plumbs and a Meijer's). There are two buildings at the intersection of main street and drakes road, but I cannot place them. I think one might've been a bank, but I'm not sure. And the other, I have no clue. But anyways, this was my town. Permenantly deserted in my mind, unmoving to change, only to become blurred or forgotten. I've only been back to kalamazoo about three times since I've left, and I know it's grown with time, forgetting the shadow of what it used to be, that which is now my memory. I can still recall the itchiness of wanting to grow up, but I cannot stop my mind from wandering back to a place where I spent so much of my youth. | |
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Tanya | 08-05-03 1:55pm big words.
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jburt1 | Re:, 08-06-03 12:36pm haha - that's okay. I wrote that for "old times sake" anyways. |